Even those who didn't live through Nina Simone's heyday can recognize ... The town comes together, black and white — and this is the Jim Crow South, this is North Carolina — and raises a ...

"This flies in the face of who Nina Simone was. She was very black and she saw color." For Blay, Saldana's look harkened back to 19th century minstrel performances where white actors wore ...

Actress Zoe Saldana faced a firestorm over her portrayal of music and civil rights icon Nina Simone. Simone's identity ... subtle debate that is no longer just black or white.

“Are you ready Black people,” Nina Simone sings in a stunning new clip ... “That concert took my life from black and white into color,” one man says in the trailer. Questlove, making ...

Nina Simone breaks the narrative that black people are only defined by their ... it was banned from being played or recorded in several white elite areas of America. It was considered the anthem ...

Her song “Four Women” is the inspiration for a play with music that closes the 2018-19 Black Rep season. Playwright Christina Ham’s “Nina Simone: Four Women” imagines Simone at the site ...

To most white people, jazz means dirt and that's not what I play. Simone ... both black. They never compared me to Maria Callas and I'm more of a diva like her than anybody else. A Nina Simone ...

The first time I put on a Nina Simone CD, I was 23 years young. I was emotionally immature, but as an aspiring music journalist, I was working my way through Black music history and curious to dig ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Akili Ni Mali, an actor and independent recording artist from San Diego, will perform as legendary musician Nina Simone in two shows this February, honoring Black History ...

Nina Simone (@NinaSimoneMusic ... In short, its a more complicated, subtle debate that is no longer just black or white.