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BAKER, La. (AP) — Members of a Louisiana State University fraternity chipped in more than $50,000 to pay off the mortgage of a woman who fed them when they were students.About a dozen member
Jessie Hamilton, seated, reacts as she is presented with a check to pay off her mortgage as LSU FIJI graduates gather to surprise their former house kitchen staff member, Saturday, April 3, 2021, and celebrate "Jessie Hamilton Day" in Baker, La. Behind her are, from left, FIJI graduate Andrew Fusaiotti, Hamilton's sons Andre' Hamilton and Craig Hamilton, and her granddaughter, Jamiah Hamilton. (Hilary Scheinuk/The Advocate via AP) Wednesday, April 14, 2021 8:32 AM EST By The Associated Press, AP BAKER, La. (AP) — Members of a Louisiana State Uni...
BAKER, La. (AP) — Members of a Louisiana State University fraternity chipped in more than $50,000 to pay off the mortgage of a woman who fed them when they were students.About a dozen member
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, who fires off pointed retorts from beneath an impenetrable mask of make-up. Known for her thunderou...
Based on August Wilson’s Tony-nominated 1982 play by the same title, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom draws inspiration from the life of Getrude “Ma” Rainey, the pioneering blues singer widely known as “The Mother of the Blues.” Rainey was among the first blues singers to record music; she also broke new ground for generations of blues singers to come by fusing vaudeville with southern blues. Wilson’s play depicts a fictionalized afternoon in Rainey’s life, set on a sweltering summer day in Chicago circa 1927, with Rainey set to record a song titled “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” ...