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The show was created to put kids’ screen time to good use. Half a century later, how is it holding up?
Artist Megan Piphus — the first female Black puppeteer on the iconic PBS kids' show — used puppets to break out of being a shy, insecure girl.
A street festival in Southeast D.C. is shutting down roads for the D.C. Department of Transportation (DDOT) Open Streets festival, officials said.
The event was canceled in 2024. Now the popular dinner along Columbia's landmark bridge has a date for a comeback.
Sesame Street and the IRC were awarded $100 million to provide educational programming to Middle Eastern children displaced by war and conflict.
Two people were sentenced Thursday to over 130 months each in prison for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy that distributed contraband in D.C.