Puppeteer Ryan Dillon, who is white, took over as Elmo in 2012 and won a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Principal Performance in a Daytime Program" for the special Sesame Street's 50th ...

Roosevelt Franklin (left), a short-lived "Sesame Street" Muppet championed and voiced by Matt Robinson (right), was designed to represent black youth on a show dominated by white puppeteers. Album ...