Charles M. Schulz was first implored to introduce a Black character to the Peanuts gang after receiving a letter from a teacher, Harriet Glickman, following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Well, Thanksgiving has come and gone. And I’m still thinking about it. For me, the annual tradition of watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade took on a special significance this year. As the ...

In the 1973 holiday classic "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving," Franklin, the sole Black character, is sidelined at the dinner table. It might not make up for the slight, but decades later, Franklin has ...

When “Peanuts” creator Charles Schulz introduced the first Black “Peanuts” character, Franklin Armstrong, in 1968, the new character offered Black children an opportunity to see themselves in the ...

Fifty years ago, Charlie Brown lost his beach ball. It was found and returned to him by a boy named Franklin, and the two proceeded to build a sandcastle together. The simple encounter of two boys on ...

CORINTH – Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past six or seven decades, you’re familiar, at least in passing, with “Peanuts.” Not the salty nuts, but the flock of friends created by ...

Like many Americans, Charles M. Schulz was profoundly changed by the April 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Yet it wasn't until a school teacher wrote him a letter suggesting a Black ...