![]() ![]() ![]() The series premiered with the initial intent to provide educational programming for children in low-income communities. “It was a big explosion, like the Beatles, where all of the sudden they changed the landscape of artistry and how we absorb information.” “I am so thrilled that has touched on an aspect of the show that isn’t often touched upon, and that’s the artistry of the show and how all of these creative people just crashed together in 1969, propelled by the civil rights movement, propelled by what was going on in the country socially,” Manzano, 70, told the Daily News. Manzano still cherishes her time on the show, the subject of a new documentary film, “Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street,” available now via video on demand. And I was charmed that there were people of color for the first time on television.” And what was called then an inner city, you certainly never saw any of that. “Up until that time, you never saw a city in a kids show. ![]() “What hooked me on ‘Sesame Street’ was that it was set in this urban environment that looked like the Bronx neighborhood that I was kind of raised in,” she said. Manzano spent 44 years on the beloved children’s show as Maria, joining two years after its 1969 debut that showed a place she knew well but TV audiences did not. Long before “Sesame Street” premiered, Sonia Manzano lived there - minus the Muppets. ![]()
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