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Find Out What Vanessa Hudgens, Don Lemon, And Sonia Manzano Have To Say
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123 months ago
NBC News When Sonia Manzano started out as María on Sesame Street, there were no Hispanic women on TV. During her 4 decades on the show, she worked hard to make sure her character was a positive role model.
Latina Pioneers: Sesame Street's Sonia Manzano Talks Of Her Impact
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BRONX, NY - When you're not reflected in society, "you wonder how you're going to contribute to a world that doesn't see you," says Sonia Manzano...
126 months ago
The Daily Beast Manzano, 65, unwittingly prompted a day of mourning on social media when she casually broke the news of her Sesame Street retirement.
Why Maria Left ‘Sesame Street’
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After a 44-year run, the beloved Maria, played by Sonia Manzano, said goodbye to ‘Sesame Street.’ She opens up about her new memoir and her favorite memories of the show.
127 months ago
Miss Representation "[Maria] Manzano’s audition [for Sesame Street] consisted of telling a scary story and explaining, as if to a four-year-old, which two shapes on a chalkboard were identical. She was pleased that producers didn't ask her to perform the stereotypes t Read more ... hat actresses of color were (and still are) often asked to reflect onscreen. 'Every other job that I went up for, I had to have an accent or act older than I was so I could be the maid. Or I would get sent up [to play] the sassy black girl,' Manzano says, snapping her fingers sarcastically. 'But here was a show that said, ‘We just want you to be yourself so that children in the inner-city neighborhoods who are watching you will have someone to relate to.''" - The Daily Beast
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Why Maria Left ‘Sesame Street’
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After a 44-year run, the beloved Maria, played by Sonia Manzano, said goodbye to ‘Sesame Street.’ She opens up about her new memoir and her favorite memories of the show.
127 months ago
MSNBC "There were no people of color on television... So I would spend my day watching television wondering what part of society I was going to fit into... I was really invisible."
-- Actress Sonia Manzano, best known as Maria from "Sesame Street"
Becoming Maria
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Actress Sonia Manzano, best known as Maria from “Sesame Street,” is leaving the famed show after more than 40 years.
127 months ago
The New York Times Sonia Manzano’s new memoir is a chronicle of her journey from an impoverished childhood amid domestic violence to adulthood.
Maria on ‘Sesame Street,’ Sonia Manzano, Tells of Her Own Childhood
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Retiring after 44 years as a beloved figure on a beloved children’s show, Ms. Manzano has a memoir out and a children’s book to come.
127 months ago
HuffPost Live "Why can't people of color just be as mediocre as everybody else and make a lot of money?"
How Actress Sonia Manzano Brought A Latino Perspective To 'Sesame Street'
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During a conversation with HuffPost Live on Wednesday about her new memoir, Becoming Maria, actress Sonia Manzano looked back on her time playing neighbor Maria on the iconic children's show "Sesame Street
127 months ago
HuffPost Live Sesame Street's Maria discusses the pressures of being a minority on TV.
How Actress Sonia Manzano Brought A Latino Perspective To 'Sesame Street'
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During a conversation with HuffPost Live on Wednesday about her new memoir, Becoming Maria, actress Sonia Manzano looked back on her time playing neighbor Maria on the iconic children's show "Sesame Street
127 months ago
The New York Times Sonia Sotomayor went to the Supreme Court. Sonia Manzano went to "Sesame Street." But every summer, these 2 Sonias return to the Bronx — to reconnect and to give back to the borough of their childhood.
2 Proud Daughters of the Bronx Share More Than a Name
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and the actress Sonia Manzano don’t have to trumpet that they’re from the block, but they want the borough’s children to think bigger.
128 months ago
MSN TV Wishing Sonia a happy retirement!
Sonia Manzano to Retire After 44 Years on ‘Sesame Street’
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“Sesame Street” is losing one of its most recognizable faces. Sonia Manzano, who played Maria on the long-running PBS children’s show, is retiring 44 years after joining the series, she said at the American Library Association Annual Conference Read more ... . Manzano first appeared on “Sesame Street” in 1971, and…
129 months ago