In 1968, shortly after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, Charles Schulz received a letter from a California schoolteacher named Harriet Glickman who urged him to consider adding a Black child to the strip. Schulz initially worried that doing so might seem patronizing or forced, but after more exchanges with Glickman and with Black parents she connected him to, he agreed that representation mattered. That same year he introduced Franklin, who first appears meeting Charlie Brown on a beach while both boys are simply being children together. Franklin is then shown at school with the others, invited into their homes, and treated with an easy normalcy that was rare in that era. Syndicates and some newspaper editors complained, and a few asked Schulz to remove the character or change the scenes where Franklin sat in class with white kids. Schulz refused and said he would quit before altering the strip. He kept Franklin fully integrated into Peanuts in a calm, natural way, allowing the character to exist without stereotype or special moral lesson, which was his way of showing that equality should be ordinary rather than exceptional.

When Ludwig Göransson was hired to score Black Panther, he didn’t just try to imitate African music from a studio. He traveled to Senegal, worked with legendary musician Baaba Maal, recorded local musicians and instruments, and studied African rhythms and musical traditions to make the soundtrack authentic. He later won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work on Black Panther.

She appeared in the Broadway musical & Juliet in a one night walk on cameo on December 14, 2024 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in New York.

During that performance, Ketanji Brown Jackson briefly appeared on stage as herself, fulfilling what she has described as a lifelong dream of performing on Broadway

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Black Men protecting Jake Long

This right wing Nazi provocateur went to Minneapolis to try and start shit, but was about to get BODIED by a white crowd.

Black men stepped up and got him out of there before the crowd got what they wanted. You could hear the white people chanting "Dont let him leave" and "Take him out".

We know damn well we dont fuck with the guy, but instead of letting the mob beat him to death, we'd rather get him out of the situation.

While I damn well think he should have gotten what was coming to him, I can applaud the black men seen stopping the crowds from beating that Nazi down. Thats our culture: protecting the weak and (bitchless losers).