It’s common knowledge that children gain pride when they see positive images of themselves during their early years. African and African American children don’t have many opportunities to see ...

Actress Jenny Slate today announced that she will no longer voice the character of Missy Foreman-Greenwald, a young mixed-race girl on Netflix animated comedy Big Mouth. Slate, 38, took to Instagram ...

Iyanu: Child of Wonder is getting a 2D children’s animated adaptation at the two Warner Bros. Discovery networks. Black-owned animation studio Lion Forge Animation (Academy Award-winning Hair Love) is ...

Doreen Kessy will enthusiastically tell you about her less than ideal experience watching TV while growing up in Tanzania. “I never saw characters who looked like me, and the shows were from a world ...

Cartoon Network is looking for new talent – in Africa. Cartoon Network Africa Creative Lab is a new program with the objective of bringing locally-produced short-form content to the network’s Africa ...

When Breanna Martin, a mother of two in Wichita, Kansas, was growing up, she didn’t see many characters on television who looked like her. “The Black girls always had light skin, and I have a dark ...

Cartoon Network Africa has announced the winners for its Creative Lab, an initiative to discover and develop African creators rather than relying purely on North American and European-produced Cartoon ...

From iconic cartoons like Speedy Gonzales in Looney Tune s to superheroes like the Flash in the DC Universe, animation is full of superfast characters. In the world of comics and animation, anything ...