'Ma Rainey's' Screenwriter Ruben Santiago-Hudson: 'Black Women Were Revolutionary'
'Ma Rainey's' Screenwriter Ruben Santiago-Hudson: 'Black Women Were Revolutionary' Ruben Santiago-Hudson, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail But in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” we tell the story of this singular icon, Ma Rainey. More from Variety She was a giant in her field and her time. What a lot of people don’t understand about the 1920s is that there were at least 100 blues women recording records — from Paramount to Columbia and with the smaller record labels. Great women like Ida Cox, Clara Smith and Victoria Spivey were recording. In their own right, they were giants. In the â...