The subject of Oscar-tipped
Netflix drama Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom was a pioneering queer black
Singer who battled white producers for control
When Florene Dawkins helped come to the rescue of a house that once belonged to Ma Rainey, the “Mother of the Blues”, it was boarded up, frequented by thieves and on the brink of collapse.
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Washington and Viola Davis on making Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom