The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund completed the restoration of the iconic North Carolina home, with plans to ...

Nina Simone was a singer, pianist, and force of nature. Born in Tryon, North Carolina, in 1933, she was classically trained but fused jazz, blues, gospel, and folk into a sound uniquely her own.

*Directed by Liz Garbus, the documentary “What Happened, Miss Simone?“ is currently streaming on Netflix, and explores the artist’s powerful presence at her concerts, her civil rights activism and ...

Nina Simone’s voice is instantly identifiable, but her life story is less well known. She was a classically trained pianist in the south, a prodigy in fact, who became a hugely popular jazz performer.