North Carolina home preserved to commemorate legendary musician and civil rights activist, and to serve as arts hub ...

The documentary The Amazing Nina Simone, by filmmaker Jeff L. Lieberman, provides an intimate look at the life of singer Nina Simone, who combined art with activism. Often called the voice of the ...

TRYON, N.C. — The childhood home of iconic musician and civil rights activist Nina Simone will be indefinitely preserved in North Carolina. The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African ...

Longtime Davidson College English professor Brenda Flanagan teaches creative writing, Caribbean and African-American literature, and literary analysis. She’s working on a memoir about her year working ...

Of all the young artists who got their start in the early days of the Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe, Apphia Campbell has likely had the most eclectic and international career. Campbell returns to ...

She could move from a whisper to a roar within a phrase, and her repertoire covered jazz standards, protest songs, blues and pop. Listen to these 11 favorites. By Marcus J. Moore Music played a huge ...

TRYON, N.C. (WTVD) -- Efforts continue to preserve the childhood home of music legend Nina Simone. Restoration of the western North Carolina home where the singer lived in her early years is in full ...

Nina Simone was a complicated woman. That complexity was one of many things about her that launched her to stardom as one of the most revered and beloved jazz and R&B singer/songwriters of her ...

NEW YORK (AP) – Andrew Stroud (STROWD), a former New York City police detective who was singer Nina Simone’s ex-husband and one-time manager, has died. He was 86. His niece Joyce Stroud said he died ...

Fire and Ash, and now people are looking back at her controversial role as Nina Simone when she did “blackface”. The ...

When Brenda Flanagan arrived at JFK Airport in 1967 from her home on the island of Trinidad, the 19-year-old had $10 in her pocket, a phone number for an American social worker and a closely guarded ...

Music played a huge role in defining the filmmaker’s distinctive atmosphere on the big and small screens. Hear 13 examples. By David Renard Songs to put you in the mood. By John White, Wendy Dorr, ...