Well, Thanksgiving has come and gone. And I’m still thinking about it. For me, the annual tradition of watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade took on a special significance this year. As the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — The mild-mannered Franklin — ...

In the 1973 holiday classic "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving," Franklin, the sole Black character, is sidelined at the dinner table. It might not make up for the slight, but decades later, Franklin has ...

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 ...

Until a teacher convinced Charles Schulz to create Franklin, all of Charlie Brown's friends were white. How Franklin, The Black 'Peanuts' Character, Was Born Martin Luther King Jr. had been dead 11 ...