The "Peanuts" comic strip's first Black character is stepping into the spotlight this week with his own Apple TV+ special. Premiering Friday, "Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin" is set to ...

Schulz, requesting that he add a Black character to his popular "Peanuts" comic strip. Shortly thereafter, a little boy named Franklin arrived on the scene. He generally remained on the fringes of ...

Apple TV+ is streaming the origin story of the first Black character in the Peanuts comic strip. The special is ... 1968 after receiving a letter from a white Los Angeles schoolteacher named ...