Nina Simone's influence knows no bounds as even on the complete opposite end of the spectrum, her music inspired Genesis to ...

Nina Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in 1933, in the small town of Tryon, N.C., but she changed her name in the mid-1950s so that her family and the townspeople who had funded her study at ...

We meet the Broadway veteran Laiona Michelle as she portrays the legendary singer Nina Simone in a musical she both wrote and stars in at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, NJ. State of the ...

…How to be young, gifted and black?Oh, how I long to know the truthThere are times when I look backAnd I am haunted by my youth…”This are opening lines from the 3rd verse of her popular Civil Rights ...

For Alexander Simone, legacy is walking down the road created by two iconic Black women while paving his own. As the grandson of jazz and soul legend Nina Simone and the son of singer and actress Lisa ...