#artistCentralBio_tabs { BACKGROUND: url(http: //ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01Px86uLUkL.gif) repeat-x left bottom } #artistCentralBio_tabs LI { BACKGROUND: url(http: //ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01upHodYGaL.gif) no-repeat left top } #artistCentralBio_tabs LI DIV { BACKGROUND: url(http: //ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01eMCDTOHCL.gif) no-repeat right top } #artistCentralBio_tabs LI DIV.last { BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(http: //ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01vjhs4JtQL.gif) } #artistCentralBio_tabs LI.artistCentralBio_currentTab { BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(http: //ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01H6Mc5YeLL.gif) } #artistCentralBio_tabs LI.artistCentralBio_currentTab DIV { BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(http: //ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01dJk+uuVPL.gif) } #artistCentralBio_tabs LI.artistCentralBio_currentTab DIV.last { BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(http: //ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01Ruvw+yhqL.gif) } #artistCentralImageBio TD { PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px } Haki R. Madhubuti (born Don Luther Lee on February 23, 1942 in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States) is an African-American author, educator, and poet. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, and served in the U.S. Army from 1960 to 1963. Madhubuti is a major contributor to the Black literary tradition, in particular through his early association with the Black Arts Movement beginning in the mid-60s, and which has had a lasting and major influence, even today. A proponent of independent Black institutions, Madhubuti is the founder, publisher, and chairman of the board of Third World Press (established in 1967), which today is the largest independent black-owned press in the United States.