Melba Joyce Boyd, Ph.D., one of the two associate producers of this film also has produced her own about Detroit’s first poet laureate, Dudley Randall. Randall was both a poet and a publisher. He started Broadside Press in 1965. You can see more about her film here:Â The Black Unicorn: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press.
In addition to the film, Dr. Boyd is also the author of Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and Broadside Press, and the newer (2009) and highly acclaimed Roses and Revolutions: The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall (African American Life).  She also is the author of a host of other books.