Nina Simone wasn't supposed to be a songwriter ... the San Diego Edition of the Los Angeles Times, she won two San Diego-area press awards in back-to-back years for Best Arts Feature and has ...

The Recording Academy announced the recipients of its Lifetime Achievement Award today. Among the honorees this year are Sly Stone, Nina Simone, The Velvet Underground, jazz great Ahmad Jamal ...

In 2019, the award-winning playwright, poet, essayist, screenwriter, and arts educator, Howard L. Craft known for his books and solo plays, including FREIGHT: The Reincarnation of Abel Green ...

A recently unearthed live version of “Blues for Mama,” written by Simone and Abbey Lincoln in the 1960s, took on domestic abuse in a momentous way. By Salamishah Tillet Nina Simone was always ...