Humble beginnings don’t get much humbler than where Nina Simone grew up. It’s in east Tryon, a neighborhood of low rolling hills and hollers, where the homes look like they’re being swallowed by the ...

NEW YORK (AP) – Iconic singer Nina Simone and New Jersey rockers Bon Jovi lead the 2018 class of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, which includes four first-time nominees. The Cars, as well as ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In the aftermath of 1963's 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, Nina Simone rocked ...

Jeff Pearlman found the people who inspired the classic 1991 2Pac song, which has reverberated through hip-hop myth-making for decades. Legendary gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, also known as the ...

Artists honor Nina Simone as her Tryon, NC birthplace is designated a National Treasure. Tryon, North Carolina is the birthplace of legendary songstress and High Priest of Soul Nina Simone. On June 19 ...

Robert W. Hart / Special Contributor Nina Simone wasn't supposed to be a songwriter, much less an activist that stirred a nation when she released her 1964 hit, "Mississippi Goddam," as a response to ...

September 16, 1963. The day after the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama led Nina Simone to shift her career from artist to artist-activist as she believed, “An artist’s ...

MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. -- The city of Mount Vernon is remembering iconic musician and civil rights activist Nina Simone. The Westchester County city was her home for more than a decade. Now, Nuber Avenue, ...

(JTA) — A filmed version of “Soul Doctor,” the 2013 Broadway musical about the life of the influential and controversial rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, will play in 600 movie theaters nationwide for one ...