1/29/2024 0 Comments Ser maria by sonia manzano![]() ![]() (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SESAME STREET THEME") My candidate for a monument celebrating Latino culture is Sonia Manzano, better known as Maria from "Sesame Street." LAURA BELTRÁN VILLAMIZAR, BYLINE: Hi, thank you so much, happy to be here.ĬONTRERAS: OK, you all have some very fascinating and worthy historical as well as contemporary figures to talk about, but let me kick things off with someone that may have a special meaning for each of you. Laura is a photojournalist who works with us as part of the NPR's Visuals team. Anaïs, thank you for being here.ĪNAÏS NAVARRO LAURENT, BYLINE: Great to be back, Felix.ĬONTRERAS: And we welcome to the contributor fold Laura Beltrán Villamizar. Stefanie, welcome back.ĬONTRERAS: And we also welcome back Anaïs Navarro Laurent, who helped us with the Black Lives Matter and Afro Latino show a few weeks ago. This week, we welcome back NPR contributor and ALT.LATINO co-host, Stefanie Fernández. ![]() Now, if we could snap our fingers and make it happen, who would we like to see immortalized in marble or bronze or carved into the side of a mountain? And I say we because I have some help to ponder this question. ![]() This week, in light of the ongoing national conversation we are having about Confederate statues, I thought we'd take some time to talk about monuments in general but from a slightly different angle. ![]()
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