Cartoons are sarcastic and seditious about almost everything except black America. Corporate malfeasance is lampooned on “SpongeBob SquarePants,” and “Jimmy Neutron” mocks American democracy. (All ...
‘You better not even dream about telling white folks the truth! ” warns cranky old Granddad at the beginning of “The Boondocks,” Cartoon Network’s new ...
Last year, Aaron McGruder, the creator of ''The Boondocks,'' a popular comic strip about two black kids in a white suburb, sat down with a top executive of the Cartoon Network to discuss turning the ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kris Marsh, University of Maryland (THE CONVERSATION) Uncommon Courses is an ...
Billie Eilish is once again facing scrutiny for a resurfaced video, this time for a 2018 interview in which she reveals her favorite cartoon character. The clip was posted to Twitter last week and is ...
Several local African American leaders launched a protest Monday over the use of the N-word on “The Boondocks,” an animated series that premiered Sunday on the Cartoon Network. Earl Ofari Hutchinson ...
When Doonesbury's Garry Trudeau drew two unmarried characters lying in bed together in the mid-1970s, many readers were outraged. One who took exception, a minister, wrote a letter objecting to the ...