In Generation Barney, member station Connecticut Public explores how Barney the Dinosaur shaped a generation of kids. Here's some of the podcast's first episode in which host Sabrina Herrera guides us ...

“Barney and the Backyard Gang” hit PBS as “Barney & Friends” and found its way into the homes of millions of kids. “Barney was a one off,” Rifkin said. “As I say, Barney was a unicor ...

Well, in the magazine, the Klan had found out that the guy inside of the Barney costume was African American, so they banned their kids from ever ... darker side of the PBS series.

Or one that will mock and vilify the character, as it did when Barney & Friends became a PBS hit in the 1990s ... Barney ...

The anecdote is shared on the latest episode of Generation Barney, a new seven-part podcast from Connecticut Public devoted to the beloved dino and how the PBS program shaped generations.

When Larry Rifkin took his 4-year-old daughter, Leora, to a Prospect video rental store one morning in 1991, he had no ...