A quarter century of legal mania over the famed singer takes an explosive turn. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large In a long, complicated fight over the music of Nina Simone, the legendary ...

The singer, songwriter, and civil rights activist Nina Simone was a riveting, uncompromising, sometimes confrontational performer. If she thought an audience wasn’t paying close enough attention, or ...

Was there ever a performer who looked - or sounded - remotely like Nina Simone? A classically trained pianist and reluctant singer, she created an extraordinary mash-up of jazz, gospel, R&B, blues, ...

Nina Simone was one of the most influential figures in rhythm and blues music during the 1960s and 1970s. Born in Tryon, North Carolina in 1933, her musical career spanned over 30 years until her ...

How do you bring gravitas to the supporting female role in a biopic largely about men? Dominique Fishback offers a masterclass in such a gesture in writer-director Shaka King’s “Judas and the Black ...

John Lennon was listening to a Nina Simone song before co-writing The Beatles’ “Michelle.” John said The Beatles’ “Michelle” would have been different if it was written solely by Paul McCartney.

The childhood home of singer and civil rights activist Nina Simone has been restored by the African American Cultural ...