A few months ago, I wrote about the importance of socially conscious children’s media. I particularly addressed how inclusive characters in media make children more aware and accepting of people ...

NEW YORK – Most Americans born since the mid-1960s have a favorite “Sesame Street” skit. Jennifer Kotler Clarke watched hers on a black-and-white television set in her family’s Bronx apartment. There ...

NEW YORK — Most Americans born since the mid-1960s have a favorite “Sesame Street” skit. Jennifer Kotler Clarke watched hers on a black-and-white television set in her family’s Bronx apartment. There ...

Writer Tony Geiss, who helped “Sesame Street” win 22 daytime Emmys for scriptwriting and songwriting by means of the words he put in the mouths of Kermit the Frog, Big Bird and Elmo, died on Jan. 21 ...

Associated Press files Muppet character Big Bird reads to Connor Scott and Tiffany Jiao during a 2008 taping of the children's program "Sesame Street" in New York. NEW YORK — Most Americans born since ...

"It was thrilling for Robin Williams to be on the show," she says Sonia Manzano is remembering one of her favorite guest stars from her Sesame Street days: Robin Williams, who appeared on the show ...

Big Bird, Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch will be losing a good friend next season on "Sesame Street." Sonia Manzano, the actress who played shop owner 'Maria' for 44 years on the award-winning ...

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 ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. The road to Sesame Street goes straight through Astoria, Queens, to an ...

"Sesame Street" writers design their shows to have those effects. From the start, the program rooted its scripts in an academic curriculum designed to help children — particularly low-income urban ...