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Charlie L. Russell
Charlie Louis Russell, Jr. (March 10, 1932 – June 28, 2013) was an American writer, best known for his play, ''Five on the Black Hand Side'', which was later made into an acclaimed motion picture. Biography Charlie L. Russell was born in Monroe, Louisiana, the eldest of two children of Charlie, Sr. and Katie Russell. His father moved to Oakland, California, in 1942 and became a shipyard worker. The family was reunited with the father a year later. Charlie and his younger brother, basketball legend Bill Russell, attended local Oakland schools. Charlie graduated from Oakland Technical High. His interest in writing was sparked while he was a student at Santa Rosa Junior College. After serving in Korea with the U.S. Army, Russell earned a B.S. in English from the University of San Francisco in 1959. He was also a member of the Dons 1956–57 and 1957–58 basketball teams. Russell was a member of the Harlem Writers Guild. Russell wrote the play ''Five on the Black Hand Side'', f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Bay Times
The ''East Bay Times'' is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Walnut Creek, California, United States, owned by the Bay Area News Group (BANG), a subsidiary of Media News Group, that serves Contra Costa and Alameda counties, in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. It was founded as the ''Contra Costa Times'', and took its current name in 2016 when it was merged with other sister papers in the East Bay. Its oldest merged title is the ''Oakland Tribune'' founded in 1874. History The original ''Contra Costa Times'' was founded by Dean Lesher in 1947, and served central Contra Costa County, especially Walnut Creek. However, Lesher began expanding by purchasing weekly newspapers in neighboring communities, as well as two eastern Contra Costa daily papers, the '' Antioch Ledger'' and the ''Pittsburg Post-Dispatch''. Originally the weekly newspapers were free for shoppers, but Lesher gradually converted the papers to "controlled circulation" in 1962, an aggressive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |