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African American author, Donald Goines was born in Detroit, Michigan on December 15, 1936. He came from a middle-class background, where his parents ran a laundry business. According to stories told to him by his mother—Myrtle Goines—the family was descended from a sexual encounter between Jefferson Davis and a slave. At age 15, Goines liedContinue reading “SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHOR DONALD GOINES”