During the event, she introduced a black teenager in the audience, Marleik Walker, who did Franklin’s voice in “The Peanuts Movie,” which was released in 2015. Walker, at the time, was 16 ...

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 ...

Growing up in a predominantly white area in Des Moines, Iowa, B. Robert Moore didn’t see many Black and brown faces in cartoons. Years later, as his artistic career took off, he wanted to change ...

Cartoonist Charles Schulz debuted his comic strip Peanuts' first black character, Franklin, on July 31, 1968. Peanuts Worldwide LLC Fifty years ago, Charlie Brown lost his beach ball.

How Franklin, The Black 'Peanuts' Character, Was Born : Code Switch Until a teacher convinced Charles Schulz to create Franklin, all of Charlie Brown's friends were white. Code Switch Race.

Meet the newest student at Piner High School in Santa Rosa. It's Franklin--the first Black 'Peanuts' character--standing tall in the middle of campus, just in time for MLK Day.

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 ...

Glickman died at her home in Sherman Oaks from complications of myelodysplastic syndrome, a blood disease, according to her daughter, Katherine Moore-MacMillan.

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.

Harriet Glickman and Marleik Mar Mar Walker, the actor who voiced Franklin in the Peanuts movie, talk to children at the American University of Health Science in Signal Hill on Saturday, November ...