Nina Simone was a complicated woman ... Her voice is at its very best in this song.

Nina Simone was also an advocate for civil rights throughout her career. She used her platform as an artist to speak out against injustice and inequality, writing songs such as “Mississippi ...

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Roston, left, and Brittney Mack perform in "Nina Simone ... As Ham's play begins, Simone is trying to write the song that would become "Mississippi Goddam," her protest anthem, when she is ...

a twice-weekly guide to new and old songs. Just a week after performing at the historically Black Tougaloo College in Jackson, Miss., supporting James Meredith’s March Against Fear, Nina Simone ...

as Nina Simone and Josh Young as Shlomo, helped Simone understand her mother's music even more. "My mom's album Forbidden Fruit has one of my favorite songs and when I was young I used to sing ...

John Lennon was listening to a Nina Simone song before co-writing The Beatles’ “Michelle.” John said The Beatles’ “Michelle” would have been different if it was written solely by Paul ...

I wanted to be the world's first black concert pianist for 22 years – Nina Simone The song Four Women, written in 1966, portrayed the struggles and resilience of black women in the US ...

"Nina Simone: Four Women," Milwaukee ... Christina Ham's play with substantial music dramatizes how Simone made civil rights activism the driving force in her songs following the 1963 bombing ...