5 Good Things: These Young Emoji Designers Want to Make History

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🗓️ 22 February 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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A California woman who lost her home in the Eaton Fire has a 3D plan to rebuild. When a father couldn’t find toys and apparel featuring Black historical figures, he created his own. We’ll tell you why a London youth group is on a mission to create emojis with Black and mixed-race hairstyles. A space robotics engineer is helping make farming easier in a country with an aging workforce. Plus, the poem – I Met My Younger Self for Coffee – has inspired millions to do the same. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.9	slash UK slash AI for people. Hey there, need a reason to smile? Well, I got five. Let's get into it.
0:36.0	From puzzle pieces to phone keyboards, meet the people behind
0:39.9	the fight for better representation in the physical and digital world. Plus, it's just so
0:46.1	nice to see that people are finding pieces of themselves within details and then being
0:51.4	able to just make it their own. How a poem inspired a cathartic online trend.
0:57.7	From CNN, I'm Krista Bow.
0:59.7	And this is Five Good Things.
1:06.0	3657 Fair Oaks Avenue, Altadena, California.
1:10.6	That's the home of Angelina Iglesias lived in with her family for 25
1:14.6	years. Her home was unfortunately one of the thousands that burned down in the neighborhood
1:20.6	from the Eaton fire. And I just thought it wasn't real, you know, I just thought I'm going to go up
1:25.8	and everything's fine, you know,
1:28.0	and I saw everything was gone.
1:30.0	The single mom of three adult kids is staying with family for now.
1:33.7	She has her good days and bad days.
1:36.1	But Evangeline, who goes by Vange, sees the light at the end of the tunnel,
1:40.8	knowing plans are underway to build her new three-bedroom two-bathroom home at
1:45.8	3657 Fair Oaks Avenue.
1:49.1	It's going to be great, and I'm going to start my life over again and have different memories
1:53.1	in a better place and a better home, so it'll be wonderful.
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