The National Trust is hoping to preserve the North Carolina house where Simone first learned to play piano
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Langston Hughes’s Ardent Public Fan Letter to the Young Nina Simone | Brain Pickings
“She is strange. So are the plays of Brendan Behan, Jean Genet, LeRoi Jones, and Bertholt Brecht. She is far-out, and at the same time common. So are raw eggs in Worcestershire and The Connection.”
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Restoration of Nina Simone’s Childhood Home To Begin This Spring | Shoppe Black
Shoppe Black Staff, Shoppe Black [dropcap]The[/dropcap] proposed rehabilitation of Nina Simone’s childhood home in Tryon, N.C., is moving forward, according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The group has completed an official assessment of the house’s structural conditions and chosen a path of initial action alongside the four New York-based artist-owners, Adam Pendleton, Rashid […]
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LISTEN: Nina Simone’s Ode to ‘Young, Gifted and Black’ Children Still Matters | Colorlines
Meshell Ndegeocello and Somi discuss the enduring importance of Simone’s 1969 tribute to Black youth for NPR’s American Anthem series.
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Who cares about her mental health | The Weekly Challenger
Simone overcame many obstacles in her life to rise to being inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame as well as into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Read Mary J. Blige’s Heartfelt Nina Simone Rock Hall Induction Speech | Rolling Stone
Blige honors Simone for singing songs “about injustice, struggle, and black life [that] resonate to this day”
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Mississippi Goddam: Dr. Nina Simone Remembered | Fashion Unfiltered
In an exclusive interview, Lisa Simone talks about her mother, Nina Simone, the icon’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the documentary, “What Happened, Miss Simone?”
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Nina Simone in Liberia | Guernica
The singer went to Africa, she said, in search of peace, or a husband, or maybe the feeling of home.
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Saving Nina Simone’s Birthplace as an Act of Art and Politics – The New York Times
For those who knew that 30 East Livingston Street was the birthplace of Tryon’s most famous resident — the singer, soul legend and civil rights icon Nina Simone — the house’s appearance on the market late last year crystallized fears that its existence, as stubborn as that of Simone herself, might be coming to an end.
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