Ma Rainey's Life and Reign as the Mother of the Blues

Netflix's Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom stars Viola Davis as one of the most influential blues singers of all time. The real Ma Rainey was the first stage entertainer to bridge the gap between the white and the Black performance circuits. "If you don’t like my ocean, don’t fish in my sea," Rainey warned in her […] The post Ma Rainey’s Life and Reign as the Mother of the Blues appeared first on Den of Geek.