Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 1971 San Francisco oil spill that dumped more than 800,000 gallons of crude off its coast was an environmental disaster. But ...

Charlie Walker, who was the subject of a recent film starring Luke Cage‘s Mike Colter, has died at 89 years old. In the 1960s, Walker led protests to open public construction jobs to Black contractors ...

“I’m Charlie Walker” stars Mike Colter (“Evil,” “Luke Cage”) as trucking and construction entrepreneur Charlie Walker. In 1971, two oil tankers violently collided off the San Francisco Coast spilling ...

*In 1971 Charlie Walker (Mike Colter) was a Black man with one truck and big dreams. In the early morning of Jan. 18, 1971, two tankers owned by Standard Oil collided under the Golden Gate Bridge, ...

Some history gets printed in the newspapers as it happens and other history gets put into textbooks after the fact, but once in a while, history gets made into a movie. Such is the case for an ...

"Get that damn oil off the beach." Shout Factory has revealed an official trailer for an indie drama titled I'm Charlie Walker, based on a true story. This hasn't hit any festivals yet, and will be ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Patrick Gilles didn’t go searching for his latest film, a biopic about an enterprising Black trucker who became an unlikely hero of an almost-forgotten ...

Mike Colter is the reason “I’m Charlie Walker,” a real-life story about race in 1970s-era San Francisco, works. His magnetism and screen presence cannot be manufactured. You have them, or you don’t, ...

Some 300 people from the local Black community last week attended Charlie Walker’s funeral, with city, state and even national political establishment figures delivering eulogies for the “Mayor of ...

It’s never a good thing when the postscript to a film based on a true story is more interesting than the actual movie itself. This is unfortunately the case with Patrick Gilles’ “I’m Charlie Walker,” ...

The 1971 San Francisco oil spill that dumped more than 800,000 gallons of crude off its coast was an environmental disaster. But for a shrewd Black trucking entrepreneur named Charlie Walker, it was a ...