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It was recently announced that, after a nearly four-year hiatus, the Adult Swim animated series The Boondocks would be returning on April 21st for its fourth and final season. However, any excitement that fans of the show experienced when hearing the news was cut short when they learned that the show’s creator, Aaron McGruder, would not be involved. Adapted by McGruder in 2005 from his popular syndicated comic strip of the same name, The Boondocks follows the social misadventures of Huey and Riley, two urban black pre-teens being raised in suburbia by their eccentric grandfather. Its unapologetic ridicule of everything...

I just caught an episode of The Boondocks on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block. It had a great spoof of both Ann Coulter and the race-baiters. Turns out this was the premier of this episode, and it's available online at Adult Swim's website. Enjoy. =)

Valle de la Pascua 22.09.06 – Two of the most important cities of Venezuela´s Llanos saw impressive levels of support in rallies for opposition candidate Manuel Rosales. The first in San Juan de Los Morros and the second in Valle de la Pascua was, according to local resident Orlando Vale, the biggest rally the city had seen in many years. ¨What we saw today we hadn´t seen since the days of the first campaign of Carlos Andres Perez¨ said Vale, who added with emotion ¨and there are even more people today!¨ The rally started in a chavista neighborhood known...

Kansas City, Mo. -- The Boondocks, the black comic-strip family living in white suburbia, are going on vacation. Aaron McGruder, the cartoonist behind the strip syndicated in about 350 American newspapers, said Tuesday he would take about six months off beginning in March. "Every well needs occasional refreshing," he wrote in a letter to be sent to editors of newspapers carrying the strip. "I hope that this fall you will agree that the time away from the demands of deadlines has served the strip, your readers and me." McGruder offered no further explanation and declined interviews. He has been doing...

I had a dream once. It was a dream that little black boys and little black girls would drink from the river of prosperity, freed from the thirst of oppression. But lo and behold, some four decades later, what have I found but a bunch of trifling, shiftless, good for nothing niggers. And I know some of you don't want to hear me say that word. It's the ugliest word in the English language.The speaker was the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., revived from a coma and addressing a television audience in “Return of the King,” an episode of “The...

The article is from a source that cannot be quoted. But it is about Al Pimpton demanding an apology from "Boondocks" cartoon which depicted MLKing as using the "N" word. (The Left fights the Left?)

NEW YORK — The Rev. Al Sharpton has asked for an apology from Cartoon Network for an episode of edgy animated series "The Boondocks" that shows the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. saying the n-word. "Cartoon Network must apologize and also commit to pulling episodes that desecrate black historic figures," Sharpton, a civil-rights activist and former Democratic presidential candidate, said in a statement Tuesday.

Cartoonist Aaron McGruder is set to shock and offend Mainstream America once again when his "The Boondocks" cartoon premieres on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim this weekend. The cartoon, which premieres Sunday (Nov. 6) at 11p.m., picks up where McGruder's irreverent comic strip leaves off. The 30-minute series chronicles the life and times of the Freeman brothers-10 year old revolutionary Huey and 8 year old misfit Riley (both voiced by Regina King of Boyz In The Hood and "227" fame)-and their grumpy "Grandad" (John Witherspoon of the Friday series). The show will also feature guest appearances from Xzibit, Charlie Murphy and...

FANS fearing that "The Boondocks," the wildly scathing, racially charged comic strip, will lose its bite when it appears on television next week need not worry. Within the first 10 seconds of the new show of the same name, viewers will be offered the following Molotov cocktail of social criticism: "Jesus is black, Ronald Reagan is the devil and the government is lying about 9/11."Since its national debut six years ago, the strip, about two black children living in white suburbia, has slaughtered its share of sacred cows, eviscerating everyone from Condoleezza Rice and Strom Thurmond to 50 Cent and...

I know I shouldn't be nearly as angry as I am over this (In fact, I know I shouldn't even care), but I couldn't help but notice that featured prominently on the top of the front page of the comic section of today's Philadelphia Inquirer (big surprise) was today's blatantly racist Boondocks comic strip. The strip in question consisted of one frame in which two young black characters observed a white character jogging in the snow while dressed for warm weather. The line written for the black characters is simply “White People”. The implication was obviously that only white people...

The nuts ARE running the asylum in Chicagoland... Today's 11/27 cartoon in the PAPER carried a note: "TOday's Get Fuzzy strip does not meet our standards for taste, so please enjoy this substitute strip from 2002." So, they showed some strip. Curiosity got me wondering WHAT was so terrible that they had to pull it... So, to www.comics.com I went. HERE is the strip they refused to post. Clearly, a cartoon cat with his "thumbs up" review for the pretty puppy is too much for the Trib...but, they printed the Doonesbury "Watch it Brown Sugar" comment cartoon with President Bush...

NEW YORK The decision by several newspapers, including a few major ones, to drop Aaron McGruder's popular "Boondocks" comic strip this week has set off sparks, possibly as the artist intended. The series of daily strips this week imagines a new reality TV show hosted by rap impressario Russell Simmons, called "Can a N***a Get a Job?", with the missing letters pretty easy to discern. It includes panels showing a woman who would rather sleep than apply for a job, a knife fight between two women and a black man smoking marijuana in a board room, in a takeoff on...

THE BOONDOCKS (FOX) - Cartoon Network is reportedly finalizing a deal to pick up the failed FOX pilot presentation from Sony Pictures Television, based on the comic strip by Aaron McGruder of the same name. The animated series chronicles the clash of cultures that ensues when two youths from inner-city Chicago, Riley and Huey, move to the suburbs to live with their grandfather. McGruder and Reggie Hudlin are the executive producers of the project.

Which comic strip do you hate the most? The winner will be dropped next semester and replaced by a mystery comic. (a) the Boondocks...

• Fox plans to add an animated series to its lineup, joining King of the Hill and the venerable Simpsons, which is in its 15th season. The network is considering five new series, including an adaptation of the comic strip Boondocks and American Dad, an Archie Bunker takeoff from Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane; decisions will be made next month. Fox also has an option for new episodes of Family Guy, which was canceled two years ago but is being resurrected on Cartoon Network because of strong DVD sales. "Animation is a huge part of our network in terms of...

WASHINGTON – He did it again, but this time on national TV. Aaron McGruder, a black syndicated cartoonist who's getting his own prime-time TV series on Fox, called National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice "a murderer" for her role in the Iraq war. He made the remark as a guest on the nationally syndicated TV show "America's Black Forum," hosted by syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor Juan Williams. The creator of the popular "Boondocks" comic strip reportedly caused some discomfort at an anniversary dinner for the Nation magazine here last month when he told the mostly anti-war audience, "I've met...

Normally, I, like everyone else here, can't stand this stone racist, but this was good for a larf.  Thought I'd share it with those of you who habitually ignore McGruder...         Owl_Eagle ”Unleash the Hogs of Peace.”

Left-wingers tend to like cartoonist Aaron McGruder for his comic-strip assaults on the Bush administration in "The Boondocks." But at a dinner Sunday night marking the 138th anniversary of the Nation magazine, McGruder earned boos for saying liberals need to be meaner if they want to win back the White House. The cartoonist revealed that he voted in 2000 for spoiler candidate Ralph Nader, and also had the nerve to blast Al Gore for losing. "Noble failure is not acceptable," he told The Post's Richard Leiby, recounting his remarks yesterday. "You've got to be prepared to get your hands dirty....

Aaron McGruder, whose cartoon comic strip "The Boondocks" appears in the Inquirer and is known for its attacks on Republicans, went on a syndicated television show recently and denounced National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice as a killer on "America's Black Forum." "I don't like Condoleezza Rice because she's a murderer," McGruder said, adding, "We can discuss this illegal Iraq war, the slaughtering of innocent people, and because she's one of the big hawks in this administration, I do not even see why this is a point of contention." *** McGruder did not mention Democratic presidential candidate Al Sharpton.

NAACP Chairman Julian Bond said over the weekend that he agreed with political cartoonist Aaron McGruder's characterization of National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice as "a murderer."