Werent around in 69, how absolutely invisible people of color were on television. Sesame street is a show with a social message, manzano naively believed her onscreen work could end discrimination. Racism has really reared its ugly head in in in ways that were unimaginable to me. In 69 i thought we were gonna fix all of that with sesame street, but clearly it hasnt. As her life changed along with the times so did her character maria. We encompassed what was going on in society. When i fell in love and got married and had a baby, so did maria. And we so it was sort of like the first reality show, without the whining i think. Growing up in a lowincome puerto rican household in the south bronx with an alcoholic father, her childhood was anything but sunny days. My father drank a lot and he was a violent drunk and he battered my mother. And we would run away from him and then wed run back to him when my mother couldnt make ends meet. In her new memoir becoming maria love and chaos in the s
Thank you for joining us. A lot of factors are going into determining just how severe our weather will become. Lets begin now with jason for the very latest. Jason scattered stuff and a broader view of super doppler 8 radar showing the huge scattered mess in areas to the west, just southeast of lincoln. One severe storm and we will continue to watch the cloud cover. We have breaks in the south. That will increase the heating and instability needed to punch up some of those robust storms. Over the next hour or so, we should see more start to shoot up and increase the potential or strong to severe storms and some could be having tornadic potential. A tomato watch out until 6 00 p. M. For central and southwestern portions of the state. These storms should follow up ship fire up individually before shooting east. They put a bullseye from des moines eastward, but we will soon have that chance of stronger storms and i will track that with you, coming up. Mollie thank you, jason. Well have yo
Across to kids, or people who werent around in 69, how absolutely invisible people of color were on television. Sesame street is a show with a social message, manzano naively believed her onscreen work could end discrimination. Racism has really reared its ugly head in in in ways that were unimaginable to me. In 69 i thought we were gonna fix all of that with sesame street, but clearly it hasnt. As her life changed along with the times so did her character maria. We encompassed what was going on in society. When i fell in love and got married and had a baby, so did maria. And we so it was sort of like the first reality show, without the whining i think. Growing up in a lowincome puerto rican household in the south bronx with an alcoholic father, her childhood was anything but sunny days. My father drank a lot and he was a violent drunk and he battered my mother. And we would run away from him and then wed run back to him when my mother couldnt make ends meet. In her new memoir becoming
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