POET AND SINGER: In 1949, poet Langston Hughes, right, spoke at Allen High School in Asheville. One of the students in attendance was Eunice Waymon, later known professionally as Nina Simone. In ...

Her stage persona, Nina Simone, was. Born on February 21, ... It’s something that says something to someone,” said Simone. “It’s very much like poetry, or like a good play.

With race at the forefront of national discussion, there is no better time perhaps to enter the stark, stalwart and sensual world of Nina Simone.

For Boston's Black community, poetry has been a way of connecting for decades. "Like Nina Simone said, we as artists, it is our duty to reflect the times that we're living in.

SPELLMAN: Nina can sing the poetry of Hoagy Carmichael, Randy Newman, Bob Dylan, or Leonard Cohen. In fact, one of the things that I most appreciate about Nina Simone is her taste in repertoire.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Moses Ingram makes her New York stage debut in Dominique Morisseau’s love poem to Nina Simone. By Juan A. Ramírez Dominique ...

Tara Betts writes a poem on gold medalists Simone Biles and Simone Manuel. Betts focuses on their historic accomplishments at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

I love Nina Simone, and that song just kills me. It's just her solo voice and percussion. At the time, 'I Will Smile' had a guitar part, but as I got inspired by Nina, the thought struck me that I ...

Simone told her these were books, articles and poems written “by Black people who look like you.’” “Sometimes when I think about it, I want to cry…” Flanagan said.

In the 1990s, some years after Nina Simone had fled America, the country that fueled both her meteoric fame and her crippling depression, she agreed to give an interview at her home in France.

Tara Betts writes a poem on gold medalists Simone Biles and Simone Manuel. Betts focuses on their historic accomplishments at the 2016 Rio Olympics.