The "Peanuts" comic strip's first Black character is stepping into the spotlight this week with his own Apple TV+ special. Premiering Friday, "Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin" is set to ...

Schulz, requesting that he add a Black character to his popular "Peanuts" comic strip. Shortly thereafter, a little boy named Franklin arrived on the scene. He generally remained on the fringes of ...

The final Peanuts cartoon was published the day after ... one of the first African American characters in a comic strip. He had initially been concerned that such a move would be considered ...

Schulz, the creator of “Peanuts,” to add an African-American character to his roster of ... She began thinking of ways the mass media shaped the unconscious biases of America’s children ...