Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Grace Townley was a young girl in Overland Park, children’s TV legend Fred Rogers was a close friend of her parents. So close ...

Piphus, a Vanderbilt alum, is the voice and puppeteer for 6-year-old Gabrielle, the first Black female character on "Sesame Street.” Piphus, who grew up in Cincinnati suburb Lincoln Heights and ...