Tag Archives: Gloria Naylor

Crucial Support in the Face of Death

By Robin Bates | Published: May 4, 2023

In “Women of Brewster Place” a character charges into a scene of despair and refuses to let death triumph.

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Shadow Projections on the President

By Robin Bates | Published: September 18, 2009

A couple of months ago I wondered on this blog whether some of the vitriolic attacks on Obama (as distinguished from reasoned disagreement) were driven by racism, and now I see that others are wondering the same, including Maureen Dowd and Jimmy Carter.  But a reader of Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish has a more […]

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