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 ...

“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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. We review “Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone” by ...

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 ...

The charm and concision of the best graphic biographies provide dramatic scenes and pithy captions that can evoke a life better than whole paragraphs and pages of narrative biographies. Even so, ...

"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 ...

Nina Simone, who would've turned 80 on Feb. 21, was a strong and vocal civil rights advocate who carried the message of universal rights and personal empowerment, freedom, equality and dignity ...

The late Nina Simone (left) will be played by Zoe Saldana (right) in ‘Nina’ While talking with The Hollywood Reporter, Ben Latham-Jones the newly named owner of Ealing Studios — the film house that ...

Nina Simone's daughter is a jazz singer just like her late mother David Redfern/Redferns ; Jack Vartoogian/Getty Nina Simone was not only a cultural icon, jazz singer and civil rights activist, she ...

Goodspeed Musicals has added the one-woman, two-act show “Little Girl Blue: The Nina Simone Musical” to this summer’s Goodspeed by the River series of outdoor concerts in East Haddam. “Little Girl ...

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, ...

One morning in June 2018, Yolanda Rabun parked her car at 30 East Livingston Street in Tryon, North Carolina, where a modest clapboard house sits on a grassy slope. She didn’t know why she’d been ...