To Be Young, Gifted and Black' was one of the biggest beacons Nina Simone offered the civil rights movement, but what was the ...

Apphia Campbell, a founding member of the Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe, returns to Sarasota for a weekend run ‘Black is the Color of My Voice” ...

The numbers from the musical Hair expressed contrasting emotions, but the singer joined them to create something new ...

Nina Simone was always ahead of her time. And in the mid-1960s she found a fellow musical innovator and ideal feminist collaborator in the jazz vocalist Abbey Lincoln, whom she teamed up with to ...

Nina Simone had one child, a daughter named Lisa Simone, who followed in her mom's footsteps as a singer, actress and performer. Here is everything to know about Nina Simone's daughter, Lisa Simone.

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 ...

Nina Simone wanted to become a classical musician, but racism was a significant obstacle. But despite the doors her talent could open for her, she found that prejudice would close just as many.

The childhood home of Nina Simone seemed fated for obscurity until a group of artists purchased it six years ago. Nancy Pierce / National Trust for Historic Preservation Tennis superstar Venus ...

From left, Arie Bianca Thompson, Chibuba Osuala, Jennifer Leigh Warren and Meredith Noël appear in a scene from “Nina Simone: Four Women,” on stage through Oct. 23 at South Coast Repertory.

A newly-discovered recording of Nina Simone’s performance at the 1966 Newport Jazz Festival will be released as a live album called You’ve Got to Learn, out on July 21st via Verve Records.