The Root

Know Your Worth: Viola Davis Is Every Black Woman in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

If her roles as Annalise Keating in How to Get Away with Murder, Rose Maxson in Fences or Aibileen Clark in The Help haven’t convinced you, no doubt Davis’s performance in Netflix’s Ma Rainey’s ...
AOL

Viola Davis Admits She Was a 'Little Judgmental' of Chadwick Boseman on“ Ma Rainey”'s Set Before Finding Out 'He Was Dying'

Viola Davis is reflecting on working with Chadwick Boseman for the actor's last film, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. In an interview with The Times, the actress, 59, shared that no one on set knew ...
Gold Derby

Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ for Netflix

It seems this will be a motion picture, that just happens to be distributed by Netflix. Premise: Depicts the tensions musician Ma Rainey encountered between her bandmates, her white agent and her ...
Bay Area Reporter

A riveting Ma Rainey: Viola Davis stars in marvelous music biopic

The first few moments of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom are electrifying. It's 1927 in rural Georgia. Hundreds of people, all of them Black, are lined up at the entrance to a huge tent. Inside, Ma ...
Variety

Viola Davis and Stacey Abrams on Oscar Season, Politics and Wielding Their Power as Black Women

Davis, one of the industry’s most celebrated actors, is being lauded for her performance in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and is considered a lead contender in this year’s Oscar race; Abrams ...