She had been the toast of New York City’s pop scene for all of two years, but Nina Simone was already cementing her legend as a no-nonsense diva. There she was onstage at the Apollo Theater in ...

Simone is the latest artist honored in Thornton’s “Beyond Category” series that Thornton Dean Jason King described as “an ...

The childhood home where famed singer and civil rights icon Nina Simone was born has suffered through failed restoration attempts over the years and currently sits in terrible shape, complete with ...

6 of 8 — Eunice Kathleen Waymon, a.k.a. Nina Simone, at age 8, photographed at the Tryon Cemetery in Tryon The childhood home of Nina Simone in Tryon has now been fully restored, but it is not yet ...

While Nina Simone’s legacy echoes through her music, the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund is preserving the physical space that helped shape the iconic singer’s life and artistry—her ...

Nina Simone was a luminary who continues to shape the world and new artists to this day. But before she became the High Priestess of Soul, Simone was Eunice Waymon, a girl from North Carolina, born 93 ...

I had the privilege of meeting and interviewing Nina Simone and over time becoming friends with her. I have never met a more talented or complicated person in my life. Nina could be little girl blue; ...

It seems like it was just a few months ago that I was writing about the Arctic Monkeys’ ‘AM’ being a quintessential October album, but alas, here we are again, with Halloween just a week away. The ...

1 of 8 — 1. Front angle w Street Sign_crMorganForde.JPG The childhood home of Nina Simone in Tryon has now been fully restored, but it is not yet open to the public, according to a recent news release ...