Here are eight Black female cartoon characters who truly left a mark. Penny Proud from “The Proud Family” Penny Proud, the star of “The Proud Family,” was a game-changer for Black girls.

Now, nearly three-quarters of CalArts’ more than 250 animation students are women, and there’s a new goal: ensure that when they land jobs, they get to draw female characters reflective of the ...

"Many, many, many women are going to animation schools. At CalArts, it's over 70 per cent. But yet if you start looking at women in creative roles, the last number we have is only 22 per cent ...