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The creative team behind "Welcome Home, Franklin" told UPI their new "Snoopy Presents" animated special is intended to give a backstory to a beloved character who has been part of the Peanuts gang since 1968.
The Apple TV+ special will premiere on Feb. 16, highlighting Franklin Armstrong’s origin story. Apple TV+ released the official trailer […] The post First Black ‘Peanuts’ character gets his own special, ‘Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin’ appeared first on TheGrio.
As big a deal as it was when Franklin became the first Black Peanuts character (in the wake of Martin Luther King’s assassination, mind you), it’s been rare to see him really meaningfully involved in the lives of Charlie Brown and his other friends. But after years of being a essentially background character, Franklin’s about to get his due in an all-new Apple TV Plus animated special out February 16th.
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.
/PRNewswire/ - WHAT In the centennial year of Charles Schulz, during San Diego Comic-Con 2022, July 21–24, Peanuts will be highlighting The Armstrong Project:...