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'Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street': Film Review | Sundance 2021

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It never fails: Every few months Sesame Street does something progressive — introducing an autistic character, acknowledging COVID-19 as a serious issue, teaching empathy — and a certain subset of social media is up in arms about how their beloved childhood favorite has "gone woke," or something.

It's in those moments that I like to post the 1972 clip of Jesse Jackson, then boasting an afro and a shiny medallion around his neck, leading a diverse group of children in a call-and-response recitation of "I Am — Somebody." The Jesse Jackson clip features prominently in Marilyn Agrelo's Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street, a very solid if somewhat tip-of-the-iceberg documentary premiering at Sundance ahead of a spring theatrical launch and.

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