An exchange of letters led to the introduction of a beloved member of the Peanuts gang ...

In July 1968, the world met Franklin, the first Black character in a mainstream comic strip. We're looking at the letter that ...

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 ...

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 ...

On July 31, 1968, Franklin Armstrong appeared in “Peanuts” for the first time, returning a beach ball Charlie Brown had lost in the ocean and then helping him build a sand castle. Nothing aside from ...