Sesame Street introduced two Black Muppets this week ... the "darker your skin looks." "The color of our skin is an important part of who we are," Elijah tells Elmo. "But we should all know ...

Sesame Street was where I learned how to see past color, into the humanity of black people. If you didn’t live it, it’s hard to express how totalizing the idea of color was in the South of ...

Big Bird is known to many as the yellow-colored, loveable friend that children have watched on "Sesame Street" for decades. In February 2021, a tweet about the colors of Big Bird's extended family ...

A previous “Sesame Street” resident was Roosevelt Franklin, a Muppet “monster” who was African American in speech and attitude but was purple in color. The Walkers are, as noted ...