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How Charlie Brown’s Black Friend ‘Franklin’ Changed the Popular Comic for Generations

In July 1968, the world met Franklin, the first Black character in a mainstream comic strip. We're looking at the letter that ...
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Column: Director to speak at local high schools as documentary on Lane Bryant shootings hits theaters

Charlie Minn’s documentary “The Tinley Park 5” opens Feb. 13 at AMC theaters in Crestwood, New Lenox and Chicago’s River East.