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Based upon the best-selling and award-winning 1982 novel, The Women of Brewster Place: A Novel in Seven Stories by Gloria Naylor, this film is a 2-part television miniseries.  The drama is centered upon the different lives of seven Black women who live in despairing conditions on Brewster Place, a dead-end street that is barricaded by a wall.  Despite their backgrounds and lifestyles and the challenges of classism, racism and sexism, the commonality of Black womanhood is what binds them together. 

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Article by Karen D. Brame

Karen D. Brame

Karen D. Brame loves learning about the diverse aspects of Black culture.  An alumna of University of Dayton; Phillips Academy, Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers; the University of Michigan and Columbia University in the City of New York, her favorite pasttimes include reading, listening to music, viewing films, watching battle rap, completing Quizzles and playing Othello in the park.

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