Sesame Workshop To Start Bias Training After Viral Video Of Character Ignoring Two Black Girls
Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, responded to a viral video that shows an incident of apparent racial bias at Sesame Place Philadelphia over the weekend. The video, posted by digital strategist Leslie Mac, shows her daughter Paige with another little girl, both black, waiting on the sidelines in the park to meet the character Rosita. While Rosita high fives the rest of the guests in front of the girls, when it was their turn she waved the two children off and walked away. The original video reached more than 550,000 views as of Tuesday morning, and a repost of the video on ...