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Miami Gardens, Fla.—For Stetson Bennett IV and the Georgia Bulldogs it was sweet, sweet redemption. But it wasn’t complete redemption. For at chance at that

Making Ma Rainey She changed popular music forever, but the “Mother of the Blues” is not the household name she deserves to be.   Netflix’s recent star-studded release, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, adapted from the Pulitzer-winning dramatist August Wilson’s 1982 play, brings one of the US’s first professional blues singers back into the cultural sphere. The larger than life, gold tooth-wearing Ma Rainey, famed “Mother of the Blues”, is played with regal poise by Viola Davis, ...