Tag Archives: Viola Davis opens up about working on breakthrough Black movie ‘Ma Rainey’

Film drama Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom  may be set in the racially divided United States of the 1920s and was written almost 40 years ago, but it arrives with much to say about today. Starring Viola Davis as Black blues singer Ma Rainey and the late Chadwick Boseman as a hot-headed trumpet player, the movie comes to Netflix on Friday as Hollywood …

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