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In 1970, Mississippi banned Sesame Street

John Fea   |  February 8, 2023

Here is Kristin Hunt at The Washington Post: In April 1970, members of Mississippi’s newly formed State Commission for Educational Television met to discuss Big Bird and Cookie Monster. ā€œSesame Streetā€ had debuted on public TV the previous November, and […]

“Sing a Song!” Bob McGrath and American music

John Fea   |  December 16, 2022

I lost myself last night following every link in historian Kathryn Ostrofsky‘s essay on the late Sesame Street actor Bob McGrath. (It was a wonderful distraction from grading blue books!) Ostrofsky shows how McGrath brought “old music” to a new […]