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She died 84 years ago when women and people of color weren’t given opportunity and credit as today, but Ma Rainey’s hard work and talent received more recognition Thursday. Rainey, the Columbus native ...

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen is a film based on the career of Ma Rainey, an acclaimed blues singer, and the main character, that depicts a tumultuous recording session in 1920s ...

Streaming on Netflix is a 2020 motion picture based on the 1982 play by August Wilson titled “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” Starring Academy Award-winning actress Viola Davis as the “Mother of the Blues, ...

The very core of George C. Wolfe’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” is the film’s music. Based on the August Wilson play, the film, debuting Dec. 18 on Netflix, follows famed blues singer Ma Rainey as she ...

The first few moments of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom are electrifying. It's 1927 in rural Georgia. Hundreds of people, all of them Black, are lined up at the entrance to a huge tent. Inside, Ma Rainey, ...

NEW YORK -- The Oscar-nominated film "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" is the story of a pioneering blues singer during a recording session in the 1920s. The movie, based on an earlier play, received five ...

L-R: Damon Gupton, Ed Swidey, Matthew Henerson and Lillias White in August Wilson s Ma Rainey s Black Bottom, directed by Phylicia Rashad, playing through October 16, 2016, at Center Theatre ...

After a string of artistic difficulties, the opportunity to tackle a dream project, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, one of August Wilson’s most acclaimed works, fell beautifully into Jamall Rawlinson’s lap.

August Wilson's first major play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom takes place over a single day in 1927, in a Chicago recording studio. Singer Ma Rainey (Whoopi Goldberg) has taken some time off from touring ...

X’ydee Alexander, Evan Lewis Smith, Jeff Nahan, James Herriotte, Matt Hollerbach, Melanie Jones, Will Bryson, T. Pharoah Muhammad, and Antoine McKay in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Credit: Courtesy photo ...