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 ...

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The Los Angeles Film Critics Association issued their annual awards last week. The association is considered one of most prestigious group of critics in the entertainment industry and their honors ...

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, ...

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 ...

This adaptation of Wilson’s play is the second in a ten-part cycle that chronicles the Black experience throughout the course of the 20th century. It’s produced by Denzel Washington, who himself ...

Viola Davis sincerely praises co-star Chadwick Boseman five years after his death as the 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' Oscar-nominated actor gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The producers of this year's Academy Awards promised that it would be like a movie. They may want to consider a reshoot of the ending. Chadwick Boseman had been heavily favored to win in the best ...

It’s been a big hit with the industry here. Netflix are doing screening after screening for it with both BAFTA and the British Film Institute, Viola has been doing a lot of campaigning and both ...

August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom tells the story of the legendary blues singer Gertrude "Ma" Rainey in 1927 Chicago, highlighting her struggles against systemic oppression in the music ...