Gloria Wade Gayles is Eminent Scholar's Chair in Independent Study, Scholarship, and Service at Spelman College. She is author of several books including “My Soul Is a Witness”: African American Women's Spirituality and No Crystal Stair: Visions of Race and Gender in Black Women's Fiction.
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