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Topic: Mr. Rogers

An African-American man with a camera looking at the skeletons of iron beds which rise above the ashes of a burned-out block after the Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 1921. (Oklahoma Historical Society/Getty Images)

On the Tulsa Massacre, race and America

Tim Madigan
Julianne Hough and Dolly Parton in "Dolly Parton's Heartstrings" (Tina Rowden/Netflix)

'Tis the season of feel-good culture

Melanie McFarland
"Queer Eye;" "RBG;" "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" (Netflix/Magnolia Pictures/Focus Features)

A feel-good cheat sheet to survive 2018

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Fred Rogers; Robert Kennedy (Gett/Family Communications Inc./Harry Benson)

What RFK & Mister Rogers had in common

Eileen G'Sell
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Muppet Kermit the Frog and his operator Steve Whitmire (Getty/Lawrence Lucier)

Banishing the frog man

Mary Elizabeth Williams

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(Reuters/Stephen Chernin)

Patton Oswalt soothes Facebook

Erin Keane
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