As actresses and actors perform "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" at ArtsCentric, they want to take you back in history. The show is set in 1927 in Chicago as singer Ma Rainey merges jazz and blues while ...

The 2025 class of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame was announced Sunday, and Georgia’s Outkast is among the newest inductees. More than 1,200 journalists, historians and music industry professionals vote ...

Ma Rainey was an unapologetic icon and, even decades after her passing, she continues to pave the way for Black expression. Although her recording career lasted just five years, blues singer Ma ...

She became friends with Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, a blues singer, who became her mentor. Bessie was quick to learn the profession, and by 1915 struck out own her own, singing in a vaudeville circuit and ...

To celebrate the beginning of our 20th year, we’ve set out to catalogue the contributions that Pittsburgh and western ...

It can be streamed here. 3. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020) An adaptation of the 1982 eponymous play by August Wilson, who based the titular character on real-life African-American blues singer ...

At the University of Washington spring football game, one had to look long and hard to identify Zaydrius Rainey-Sale. He was the one guy among the 94 who gathered for last Friday's closing ...

The Pirates are selecting the contract of right-hander Tanner Rainey, according to a club announcement. Right-hander Justin Lawrence was transferred to the 60-day injured list to make room for ...

Gertrude W. Caryl, age 96, of Webster, N.Y., passed away on May 3, 2025 at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester. She was born on Feb. 8, 1929, in Nunda, N.Y ...

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