Charles M. Schulz was first implored to introduce a Black character to the Peanuts gang after receiving a letter from a teacher, Harriet Glickman, following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

LOS ANGELES — As a child, Clara Spars, who grew up in Charles M. Schulz’s adopted hometown of Santa Rosa, assumed that every city had life-size “Peanuts” statues dotting its streets. After all, Spars ...

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It’s been 25 years since a fresh comic strip, but the jokes and the warmth and the characters are still with us.