And then they went to this zany - I think it was Wanda, the Witch. Hooper's store was just like the Jewish store owner on Third Avenue. Susan and Gordon, this beautiful black couple from tenement doors, the trashcans were like the trashcans in my neighborhood, Mr. And I said, "What is this?" I thought it was a show that taught lip reading or something like that.Īnd then I saw the Street. very deliberate manner and the letters flashed over his head. I walked into the student union at Carnegie Mellon University, and there on that television screen was a very young, very bald James Earl Jones reciting the alphabet. When Sesame Street began, Manzano says, "We thought we were going to end racism, we were going to close the education gap. And one of her brothers said to me, "We used to hang around someone's house, and if they gave us a scrap to eat, we'd stay." You know how dogs stay around if you throw them a bone? And she would tell me these horrible stories and she would say that my father had gone through similar things. My mother would tell me these stories about Puerto Rico during the Depression - the poverty, the unrelenting struggle to find something to eat. On trying to understand what led her father to become abusive Now she joins the 3rd Hour of TODAY to talk about Alma’s Way, a new children’s show inspired by her own. It was this complete cycle of violence, hope, violence, hope. For more than 40 years, actress Sona Manzano played Maria on Sesame Street. When the furniture would be broken - because my father would throw the chairs around and destroy the coffee table - my sister would say, "Look at this, this is great! We're going to have all new furniture by Monday morning!" Which we did. On how she felt she needed to have "a sense of humor" about her family situation Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Becoming Maria Author Sonia Manzano
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