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Simone in 1969

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Nina Simone: 'Are you ready to burn buildings?'

Monday 22 June 2015 18.10 BST

Last modified on Thursday 25 June 2015 14.30 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/22/
nina-simone-documentary-what-happened-miss-simone

Nina Simone with her mother, Mary Kate Waymon,

at the 1974 Human Kindness Day event

in Washington, D.C.

Photograph:

Courtesy of the Kwame Brathwaite Archive

The Photographer Who Captured the Beauty in Blackness

Kwame Brathwaite,

who shot some of the great icons of the 1960s and ’70s,

has spent his career largely underrecognized. That is, until now.

NYT

June 17, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/
t-magazine/kwame-brathwaite-photographer.html

Nina Simone in the recording studio

in approximately 1967.

Photograph: Gilles Petard

Redferns/Getty Images

The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women

NYT

July 24, 2017 5:00 AM ET

https://www.npr.org/2017/07/20/
538324927/turning-the-tables-150-greatest-albums-made-by-women-page-13

Nina Simone 1933-2003

born Eunice Waymon

singer

whose distinctively

emotional style

blended elements

of jazz, gospel, blues,

European art song

and other influences

(...)

Ms. Simone

had only one Top 20 hit

in her long career

— her very first single,

"I Loves You, Porgy,"

released in 1959 —

but her following

was large and loyal

and her impact

deep and lasting.

Aretha Franklin,

Roberta Flack and Laura Nyro

were among the singers

who were influenced by her.

(...)

Ms. Simone was as famous

for her social consciousness

as she was for her music.

In the 1960's

no musical performer

was more closely identified with

the civil rights movement.

Though she was best known

as an interpreter

of other people's music,

she eloquently expressed

her feelings about racism

and black pride in those years

in a number of memorable songs

she wrote herself.

"Mississippi Goddam"

was an angry response

to the killing

of the civil rights advocate

Medgar Evers.

"Young, Gifted and Black,"

written with

the keyboardist Weldon Irvine Jr.,

became something of an anthem,

recorded by Aretha Franklin

and many others.

"Four Women"

painted a subtle but stinging picture

of the suffering and the strength

of African-American women.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/
arts/music/nina-simone-blues-for-mama-newport.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/20/
nina-simones-20-greatest-songs-ranked

https://www.npr.org/2017/07/20/
538324927/turning-the-tables-
150-greatest-albums-made-by-women-page-13

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/
t-magazine/kwame-brathwaite-photographer.html

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/04/
nina-simone-radical-music-lorraine-hansberry

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/08/
683021559/nina-simone-to-be-young-gifted-and-black-american-anthem

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/19/
nina-simone-home-national-treasure-north-carolina-recognition-legacy

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/
arts/television/hal-tulchin-90-dies-
documented-a-little-seen-black-woodstock.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/
movies/nina-review-zoe-saldana-nina-simone.html

http://www.npr.org/2016/03/05/
469298260/saldana-as-simone-resurfaces-a-debate-beyond-black-and-white

http://www.npr.org/2015/06/24/
416805770/new-documentary-finds-nina-simone-in-between-the-black-and-white-keys

http://www.npr.org/sections/ablogsupreme/2015/06/24/
416824244/the-high-priestess-of-soul-nina-simone-in-five-songs

http://www.npr.org/2015/06/24/
416805770/new-documentary-finds-nina-simone-in-between-the-black-and-white-keys

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/22/
nina-simone-documentary-what-happened-miss-simone

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/
movies/nina-simones-time-is-now-again.html

http://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/apr/30/
netflix-nina-simone-documentary-trailer-what-happened-miss-simone

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/
arts/nina-simone-70-soulful-diva-and-voice-of-civil-rights-dies.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1968/01/08/
archives/nina-simone-draws-full-house-to-carnegie-hall-song-session.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1966/11/23/
archives/nina-simone-casts-her-moody-spells.html

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