Race, music, strong women at heart of movie ‘Ma Rainey’
JILL SERJEANT FILM drama "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" may be set in the racially divided United States of the 1920s and was written almost 40 years ago, but it arrives with much to say about today. Starring Viola Davis as Black blues singer Ma Rainey and the late Chadwick Boseman as a hot-headed trumpet player, the movie comes to Netflix on Friday as Hollywood and the United States grapple with systemic racism. "The reason why (the film) resonates today is because racism hasn't been destroyed. It has just evolved," said Davis. "You can't go through 400 years of systemic racism…