Haki R. Madhubuti (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
The range of Haki R. Madhubuti (MAH-dew-buh-tee) as a writer and pioneering publisher justifies the admiring description of him as a “black man of letters.” Born in Arkansas as Don Luther Lee, he was reared by his mother in a Detroit ghetto, where he learned about “pimps, whores and Cadillac doors” from the city’s streets. His mother worked as a cashier, maid, janitor, and, eventually, prostitute, dying of a drug overdose when Madhubuti was fifteen. He then moved to Chicago to live with relatives; he recalled his teenage years there in the mid-1950’s as a time when he was...
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