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Nina Simone

Nina Simone’s "Black Gold"

This Woman’s Work: ‘Black Gold’ by Nina Simone

This Woman's Work

A live album that captured the rage and hope of the civil rights movement.

Joan As Police Woman

Indie rocker Joan As Police Woman is mellower but honest as ever

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Singer Alina Simone in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, Russia

When Alina Simone (not her real name) met Alina Simone (not her real name either…)

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50 years after death, civil rights icon Medgar Evers recalled in music he inspired

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Cambodian Space Project Rocks Phnom Penh

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The Legacy of the National Black Theatre

Nina Simone was just one of the immense talents to grace the stage of the National Black Theatre over it’s long history in Harlem.  Others like actor Ruby Dee, and poets Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni also performed there.  We look at the important cultural legacy of the National Black Theatre, which was founded by the late […]

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