New children's picture book biography Nina: A Story of Nina Simone by Traci N. Todd, illustrated by Christian Robinson, explores the famed singer's career and civil rights activism. A new children’s ...

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Nina Simone is born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina on February 21, 1933. Simone graduates from Allen High School for Girls in Asheville, North Carolina. She spends the summer at the ...

“Nina,” the long-gestating bio-pic about Nina Simone, written and directed by Cynthia Mort, opens today. It shares one peculiar quality with two other recent bio-pics of musicians, “Miles Ahead” (in ...

"Inspired by the critically acclaimed Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?, an intimate and vivid look at the legendary life of Nina Simone, the classically trained pianist who evolved into ...

How do you write about an artist when her life doesn’t fit into a clear, linear narrative? Do you run with the legends and draw conclusions based on speculation? Do you sanitize her biography by ...

Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist who worked in a broad range of musical styles including classical, ...

Davan Waymon, an African-American entrepreneur advertised "Dry Cleaning and Pressing — Called for and Delivered" in a March 1929 issue of the Tryon Daily Bulletin. Waymon had just moved to town from ...

Lots of people are fuming about Nina, an upcoming biopic about legendary singer Nina Simone. According to its critics, the filmmakers butcher important parts of Simone's biography (in part, by ...

YOU CAN’T possibly grow up without some demons when your mother is the High Priestess of Soul. Lisa Simone, 52, is a singer and actress who grew up in the shadow of her mom, Nina Simone, the famed ...