By now there is much talk about playwright August Wilson’s dramatic film adaptation of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. The Netflix film adaptation of the play directed by George C. Wolf and written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson leaves many of its viewers…
Who’s the Mother of the Blues? Better say Ma Rainey! It’s 1927. It’s a steamy Chicago summer, just like the rest. Hot. Humid. Even the streets are sweating. Ma (Viola Davis) comes up from Georgia to Chi-town to make an…