How Nina Simone influenced an NC professor’s journey. It’s the focus of her new memoir
One of the first people she shared that dream with was none other than N.C. native and civil rights activist Nina Simone. Flanagan would spend a year working as a nanny for the singer’s daughter.
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The Progressive Underground Pick of the Week: ‘Why? (The King of Love is Dead)’ by Nina Simone
In "Why?" Simone channels the collective grief of the civil rights movement, while also challenging her audience to continue the fight for equality.
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Film version of ‘Soul Doctor,’ the Shlomo Carlebach-Nina Simone musical, to hit US theaters for 1 night
It also chronicles his friendship with Nina Simone, the iconic singer and civil rights activist, whom he meets at a downtown jazz club. Given his family’s experience of antisemitism, Carlebach ...