You’re a racist man, Charlie ... Brown Thanksgiving” for seating its only black character, Franklin, alone on one side of the holiday table — in a rickety old lawn chair. Meanwhile, white ...

Even if you’ve never watched the 1965 animated television special, “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” based on ... “Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus.” Mendelson immediately reached out ...

To be clear, jazz musicians, especially Black artists whose work was often undervalued by the masses, had made Christmas albums before. But “A Charlie Brown Christmas” was the first time that ...