The musical career of American pianist Nina Simone has three important events. The first one happens when a white woman who employs Simone’s mother as a maid recognizes that the young black girl is a ...

Singer and pianist Nina Simone was born (as Eunice Waymon) in 1933 in Tryon, N.C., a tiny town about 90 miles outside of Charlotte. Her childhood home was recently purchased by a group of African ...

…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 ...