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Black Drama

Barbara Ann Teer and Charlie L. Russell
Black Drama

Black Drama offers the autobiographical accounts of two leading African-American figures in live theater during the 1970s: Barbara Ann Teer and Charlie L. Russell. Russell, author of the play Five on a Black Hand Side shares his motivation behind writing plays designed with a black audience in mind while Teer describes her journey from dance student to founder of the National Black Theater.