I no longer recall what song came on first ... she is Black as hell. In my mind, Nina Simone is the greatest singer in the history of Black popular music. I recognize that this may seem ...

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

She covers the songs of the Beatles ... (There are three -- "The Legend at Her Best," "Misunderstood" and "Nina Simone's Finest Hour" -- to be released this summer.) And yet her voice had grown ...

You've read all about the 500 best pop songs that reached Billboard's flagship songs chart -- now check out the 100 best that never got there. Last week at Billboard, we spent three days counting ...

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 ...

"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 ...