When "Sesame Street" was created in 1969, it was a test - could television teach children? The program was developed with lower-income families in mind, and the set was meant to represent a block in ...

Sesame Street is now teaching race consciousness to little-bitties: This makes me really sad, and I’m not kidding or exaggerating. Let me explain. I was born in 1967. Sesame Street was born two years ...

Conceived at the end of the 1960s in a time that seemed both perilous and promising, Sesame Street set about to help prepare preschoolers. Urban riots had sharpened the growing national sense that a ...

As the classic kids' program celebrates its 53rd year on television, get to know your favorite childhood show like never before with these fun facts from the Sesame Workshop staff Every year, Sesame ...