Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After premiering for the first time in 1969, the beloved children’s show “Sesame Street” soon found itself at the center of a ...

In April 2025, a Reddit user on the r/todayilearned (TIL) subreddit claimed that officials in Mississippi — a U.S. state with a long history of civil and racial injustice — once refused to broadcast ...

When TIME set out to tackle the debate over children’s TV in late 1970, a year after Sesame Street premiered, correspondent Mary Cronin was sent to interview one of the show’s puppeteers—and ended up ...