When musician Ella Jenkins appeared on the show, she brought Black diasporic music and her signature songs to televisions ...

97 years ago today, Fred McFeely Rogers was born in Latrobe ... Not only that, but he served as a chairman of a White House forum on child development and the mass media in 1968.

Here, Kurlander contrasts the wildly different paths taken by Engel and Fred Rogers that led each to generate programming that helped kids cope. Making Good Attractive: How Peter Engel and Fred ...