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This Oscar weekend, join us for battle of the divas. Part I: Meet ‘Ma Rainey’
Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.One of the best films of 2020, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom scored several Oscar nods this season, including Leading Actor nominations for stars Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman. Will they take home the top honors? Do they deserve to? Watch and see…In the film, Davis plays Ma Rainey, the real-life queer singer who popularized blues as a musical genre.