Today is National Franklin Day! Peanuts is celebrating the 47th anniversary of comic strip’s first African-American character, Franklin Armstrong. Harriet Glickman, a school teacher, wrote a letter to the comic strip’s creator Charles M. Schulz following the death of Martin Luther King urging him that an African-American character needed to be added to the popular … Continue reading ‘The Peanuts Movie’ – Celebrate Franklin Day With This New TV Spot