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When Simone wasn’t there, she allowed Flanagan to use the library that included books by some of her own friends — people like Langston Hughes and James Baldwin. Simone told her these were ...
Sent by Newsweek to shoot Nina Simone, he eventually became a close friend; Simone introduced him to James Baldwin as "the best photographer in the world." [7] A print of Gotfryd's photograph of Simone and Baldwin is now housed at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. [8]
She is the subject of Nina: A Story About Me and Nina Simone, a one-woman show first performed in 2016 at the Unity Theatre, Liverpool—a "deeply personal and often searing show inspired by the singer and activist Nina Simone" [124] —and which in July 2017 ran at the Young Vic, before being scheduled to move to Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre ...
Nina Simone’s ‘legacy of resilience and artistic brilliance’ to be celebrated in three-day concert. ... a tribute to writer and political activist James Baldwin, who shared a close ...
James Arthur Baldwin (n ... Baldwin was a close friend of the singer, pianist, and civil rights activist Nina Simone. Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry, and Baldwin ...
Before the American public knew her as Nina Simone “the high priestess of soul,” Eunice Kathleen Waymon was already making a name for herself in Western North Carolina. Born in 1933 at 30 East ...
Simone performed the song in front of thousands of people at the end of the Selma to Montgomery marches when she and other black activists, including Sammy Davis Jr., James Baldwin and Harry Belafonte crossed police lines. [11] Simone performed "Mississippi Goddam" on The Steve Allen Show on September 10, 1964.
In 1969, Nina Simone first released a song about Hansberry called "To Be Young, Gifted and Black." The title of the song refers to the title of Hansberry's autobiography, which Hansberry first coined when speaking to the winners of a creative writing conference on May 1, 1964: "Though it is a thrilling and marvelous thing to be merely young and ...