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.

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 ...

Franklin arrived in the beloved Charles M. Schulz comic on July 31, 1968, just months after the slaying of Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

In a groundbreaking comic strip on July 31, 1968, Charles M. Schulz introduced his first black character, Franklin, a young boy carrying a beach ball who casually walked up to Charlie Brown on the … ...

The first Black "Peanuts" character, Franklin Armstrong, is getting his own TV special premiering on Friday, Feb. 16 on AppleTV+.

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.

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 ...