Sesame Street: 50 Years Of Sunny Days
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- Runtime
- 120 mins
For more than a half-century, Sesame Street has addressed and explained diversity, equity, and inclusion around the globe by using the universal tools of music, empathy and celebrity. Sesame Street: 50 Years of Sunny Days reflects upon the efforts that have earned the show respect and qualification around the globe. The special also chronicles the creation and introduction of a Black family of Sesame Street Muppets, Wes and Elijah Walker, a father-and-son duo who are at the heart of Sesame Workshop’s new racial justice initiative Coming Together.
For more than a half-century, Sesame Street has addressed and explained diversity, equity, and inclusion around the globe by using the universal tools of music, empathy and celebrity. Sesame Street: 50 Years of Sunny Days reflects upon the efforts that have earned the show respect and qualification around the globe. The special also chronicles the creation and introduction of a Black family of Sesame Street Muppets, Wes and Elijah Walker, a father-and-son duo who are at the heart of Sesame Workshop’s new racial justice initiative Coming Together.
Cast
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Anthony Fauci
- W. Kamau Bell
- Gloria Estefan
- Christopher Jackson
- Lucy Liu
- John Legend
- Olivia Munn
- Questlove
- Usher
- Chrissy Teigen
- John Oliver
- Rosie Perez
- Stevie Wonder
- Angelina Jolie
- Sonia Manzano
- Peter Linz
- Martin P. Robinson
- Alan Muraoka
- Kay Wilson Stallings
- Jill Biden
- Louis Henry Mitchell
- Chris Thomas Hayes
- Carmen Osbahr
- Nyanga Tshabalala
- Bill Sherman
- Jason Weber
- Stacey Gordon
- David Miliband
- Zaid Baqaeen
Director
- Rebecca Gitlitz