If you’re younger than 45 years old, then PBS perennial “Sesame Street” is probably a huge part of your youth. “Sesame Street” was a huge change from
Sesame Street alumna Tatyana Ali
Sesame Street alumnus Raul Julia
baby-boomer children shows in that: 1) It was set in the inner-city, and not the suburbs; 2) children of every hue were represented; and 3) the neighbors on “Sesame Street” looked like the integrated neighborhoods that most post-integration Americans were looking for.
Desiree Casado
Sonia Manzano
Sesame Street alumnus Roscoe Orman
“Sesame Street” was also one of the first children’s shows to feature African American, Puerto Rican, and Caribbean kids and adults in the 1970′s who weren’t junkies, living in violence-plagued communities, or cracking jokes about “honkies.” People on this show actually spoke to one another, shared front stoops, and sang happy songs that anyone was welcomed to sing with them.
So here’s those vanguard neighbors who helped to usher in Elmo, Takalani, and others who brightened our day… especially the ever hopeful and sensitive Big Bird!
When she first came on the music scene, she was often overlooked, and like most rappers who are female, pushed into the background of a “crew” of rapping men and booty-shaking women.
Hollywood can’t get enough of the gorgeous Meagan Good, who has three films in the works! Best known for her work in Stomp the Yard, Roll Bounce, and the haunting Cicely in Eve’s Bayou, Ms. Good will star as Luba in upcoming production of Saw V…or better known as, the never-ending-story. (Saw is the horror franchise that just keeps on giving…even when you ask it to stop.)