'Sesame Street' introducing new Korean-American character

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(CNN)"Sesame Street" is getting a caller champion friend.

Ji-Young, a 7-year-old Korean American character, volition beryllium a portion of "See Us Coming Together: A Sesame Street Special."

The show, acceptable to aerial connected Thanksgiving, celebrates "the affluent diverseness of Asian and Pacific Islander (API) communities arsenic portion of the organization's ongoing radical justness initiative."

"It's a almighty happening erstwhile kids spot radical similar themselves represented connected surface and successful stories -- it supports them arsenic they fig retired who they are and who they privation to be," Alan Muraoka, a longtime "Sesame Street" formed subordinate and co-director of "See Us Coming Together," said successful a statement. "We can't hold for families to get to cognize Ji-Young -- successful this peculiar and successful aboriginal seasons of Sesame Street -- and observe immoderate of the Asian and Pacific Islander radical successful our neighborhood!"

The "Coming Together" inaugural was "created to enactment families of each backgrounds done ongoing conversations astir race" and the caller peculiar besides volition connection the accidental to sermon anti-Asian racism.

"In an offscreen incident, different kid tells Ji-Young to 'go home.' This is an illustration of 1 benignant of favoritism Asian and Pacific Islander radical look successful occidental countries wherever they're often perceived arsenic 'perpetual foreigners,'" according to a property merchandise astir the special. "After the incident, Ji-Young seeks retired trusted grown-ups and friends who unite to assistance her cognize that she's precisely wherever she belongs."

There volition beryllium accusation located astatine sesame.org/seeus to facilitate the conversations betwixt adults and children astir immoderate of the issues raised successful the special.

"See Us Coming Together: A Sesame Street Special" volition debut connected Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 25 connected aggregate platforms, including Cartoonito connected HBO Max, PBS KIDS, and Sesame Street's YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram channels.

HBO Max is owned by CNN's genitor company.

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