The Murder of the Greatest Street Writer That Ever Lived
The Night a Hit Was Carried Out On America's #1 Bestselling Novelist and His Common Law Wife
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The story of the gang style murder of America's number one bestselling urban pulp fiction novelist in 1975 has gone largely untold. Donald Goines died somewhat unknown outside the local streets of Detroit in his day, so much so that he was buried without a headstone and years later even his gravesite was illegally dug up and resold anew, leaving the griot's remains physically lost forever.
Today, however, Donald Goines is considered the Tupac of urban fiction. Reincarnated and celebrated by American prisoners and hip hop alike. Few movie adaptions of the author's works have been made into film, and not a single biography. Until now.
Incoordination with who else but Willie Earl Scott, a doggone genius on every level, a group of stage geeks from Howard University have taken a forgotten tragedy and made it into memorable history. And with their full film effort to be released in June 2023, we can expect it to be a cool cold Summer.
