Introduced in 2017 as part of Unicode 10.0 and added to Emoji 5.0, the orange heart serves as a versatile symbol in digital dialogues. According to Emojipedia, ...

While Orange Shirt Day is growing in popularity as a way to promote reconciliation, a person who makes the official shirts says getting them to everyone who wants one has been tricky.

Orange Shirt Day was inspired by Phyllis Jack Webstad, a Stswecem'c Xgat'tem First Nation elder in Williams Lake, B.C., and by her first day at residential school in 1973, when she was six.

“Orange Shirt Day” started as a day of remembrance for Indigenous children who were separated from their families and sent to residential schools in Canada, but the event now encompasses First ...