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List of The Boondocks characters

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Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ6599502 ↗
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The Boondocks is an American anime-influenced adult animated sitcom created by Aaron McGruder, based upon his comic strip of the same name, that premiered as part of the Adult Swim programming block on Cartoon Network in 2005.

Writer Terence Latimer asserts that many of the characters in The Boondocks can be seen as caricatures and personifications of recurring identities and ideologies in the Black-American community.

Main characters

The Freeman family

The Freeman family in The Boondocks series is shown as an all-male, African-American trio, each having very different personalities. The main protagonist and narrator is Huey, who possesses the cognitive functions of a child genius. His brother, Riley Freeman, is more practical, streetwise, and outspoken. The brothers rarely get along but do in some episodes, and many stories revolve around them feeling embarrassed by the other's actions. The third member of the Freeman family is Robert, the "Grandad" to Huey and Riley. Robert cannot remember his own age, yet he never dates women of his own generation.

Huey Freeman

Huey R. Freeman (voiced by Regina King) is a young, 10-year-old leftist, black radical revolutionary and retired domestic terrorist. He is a near master practitioner of Chinese martial arts, as seen in the episodes "Let's Nab Oprah", "Attack of the Killer Kung Fu Wolf Bitch", "Stinkmeaner 3: The Hateocracy", and "...Or Die Trying".

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