When I was a sheltered child, “Sesame Street,” soon to stream on Netflix, made racial diversity and kindness look like the way the rest of the world worked.

Writers for Sesame Street and their management reached a tentative three-year agreement late Friday, just ahead of a looming deadline for a union-authorized strike. The deal offers writers ...

Netflix saved 'Sesame Street' from an uncertain fate in a way that creates goodwill for the company—and bad publicity for one of its rivals.