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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

“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 ...

It was singer and poet Gil Scott-Heron who said that Nina Simone was black way before it was fashionable to be black. A controversial and indisputable music icon and celebrity, her unique blend of ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

"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 ...