The Detroit Riverfront Conservancy is excited to invite you to embrace the winter season with them! Winter at Valade returns!

It takes a genius to tackle so many topics in a single story, and Wilson is in top ... her songs her way, and there is no negotiating. Additionally, the devotion and care that Ma Rainey showed ...

The new documentary “Sly Lives, aka the Burden of Black Genius,” which focuses on the life and career of the brilliant but ...

Her ambition is to write songs for Duke Ellington’s band but ... voice that could find its true home in theatre portraying a Ma Rainey or Bessie Smith type character. She is also very funny ...

She sang Christian songs. I used to go to church a lot ... She started off much in the way that Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey, who traveled these roads before her, did, as part of a variety show.

“I told her, “I'm going to do my best to fill your shoes ... Jones says she also took inspiration from other women like Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, women from church, and even some of ...

However, it can only win 12, since it has two original songs competing against ... (which she won), and twice for best actress for "The Help" and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." ...

“Nate Grant’s groundbreaking Lake Shore Film and Television Company introduced many Black Chicago performing artists to the industry and ironically was located in the same South Michigan Avenue area ...

February is Black History Month and to celebrate, WTVM is highlighting Black history in our area throughout the month.

The Ma Rainey House and Blues Museum is one of the landmarks in Columbus that you cannot miss when touring the black heritage trail. Ma Rainey or as some may call her “The Mother of Blues” was ...

Drama, music, and history will unfold Saturday at the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History when as J.J. Brown Productions and the presents a one-night-only performance of August Wilson’s “Ma ...