27 Years Ago Today, One of the Greatest Comic Strips of All Time Debuted (And It’s Just as Relevant Today)

I was a huge fan of The Boondocks comic strip back in the day! It was incredibly popular, appearing in over 300 newspapers before it finished in 2006. The story followed brothers Huey and Riley Freeman, who moved from Chicago to live with their grandfather in the mostly white suburb of Woodcrest. The name The Boondocks really captured how out-of-place and isolated these kids felt. It was a really powerful, politically-driven comic that spoke directly to the experiences of many African Americans in the late 90s and early 2000s. Honestly, it was unlike anything else in the newspapers then, and it’s still a cultural touchstone for me today.








