Tome Cousin recalled a young actor talking about being the token person of color at a final callback for a Broadway show and how the story struck a chord deep in his own experience " with an exception being that instead of "a token," he thought of himself as the "Franklin" in the room. Franklin was the one African-American character in the "Peanuts" comic strip.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM on January 10, 2017