Robert Reed (October 19, 1932 – May 12, 1992) was an American character actor of stage, film and television, widely identified with his fatherly role as Mike Brady on the iconic ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch from 1969 to 1974 and in later reunion programs. Earlier he played Kenneth Preston on the popular 1960s TV legal drama, The Defenders, alongside E. G. Marshall. He was one of several international celebrities to die with HIV infection in the early 1990s, drawing more sympathetic public attention to AIDS.
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“Of the wheel as it rolls unrelentingly over
A cow plodding through car-traffic on a street in Iasi,
And over the haunts of Robert Pinsky’s mother and father
And wife and children and his sweet self”
—Robert Pinsky (b. 1940)
“The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred to in the newspapers as blacks and African Americans must include Europe and Native America.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)