(ThyBlackMan.com) When I think about the roots of blues music—the raw honesty, the pain wrapped in poetry, the joy carved out of hardship—I think of Ma Rainey. Her voice was more than a sound; it was ...
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 ...
SOUTH BEND — South Bend Civic Theatre continues its 10-play August Wilson Century Cycle with “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” through May 28 at 403 N. Main St. Written in 1982 and set in 1927 in Chicago, ...