The white children sit on the other side, but Linus stands up and says, "Hey Franklin, we saved you a seat over here. Come join us." "The characters are real to me, they're real little kids ...

E very long-running Peanuts gag had to start somewhere and for Sally Brown, her infamous crush on Linus started the instant they met, in a comic strip from the summer of 1960. From then on, their ...

His "Peanuts" comic strip was read by nearly 100 million people each week. The characters — Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus — were all white. So Glickman told Schulz he should integrate.

Craig Schulz, son of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, talks about a new special, Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin, the origin story of Franklin Armstrong, the comic strip's first Black character ...

The strip shows Franklin rescuing Charlie Brown's runaway beachball. The image was powerful — a Black child and white child together on a beach at a time when many public beaches were segregated.

Craig Schulz, son of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, talks about a new special, Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin, the origin story of Franklin Armstrong, the comic strip's first Black character ...

The strip shows Franklin rescuing Charlie Brown's runaway beachball. The image was powerful — a Black child and white child together on a beach at a time when many public beaches were segregated.

The origin story of the first Black Peanuts character is streaming on Apple TV+. The first Black 'Peanuts' character finally gets his origin story in animated special | 90.5 WESA ...

An Apple TV animated special shows how Franklin, the first Black "Peanuts" character, meets Charlie Brown and friends in Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin. Apple TV+ is streaming the origin ...