Nina Simone News & Updates

Nina Simone Knew Just What the Trouble Was. (It’s Still the Trouble.)

Mississippi Goddam” is a song of the Civil Rights Era, and our own. Listen to it with our critic W...

Jun 09, 2026 • The New York Times

What happened to Nina Simone's childhood home after Helene? We have answers

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Oct 03, 2024 • Yahoo

Nina Simone: 10 Powerful Quotes To Live By

Nina Simone was a luminary who continues to shape the world and new artists to this day. But before ...

Apr 20, 2025 • MadameNoire

Essential Nina Simone: 4 of the Crooner’s Best Songs of All Time

Nina Simone was a complicated woman. That complexity was one of many things about her that launched ...

Dec 08, 2024 • American Songwriter

African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund restores Nina Simone’s childhood home in North Carolina

While Nina Simone’s legacy echoes through her music, the African American Cultural Heritage Action...

Dec 14, 2025 • The Grio

Childhood Home Of Nina Simone In N.C. Restored Into Inspired Archive Of Singer’s Life

The childhood home will feature historically accurate furnishings and more reflecting Simone's time ...

Nov 17, 2025 • Black Enterprise

Nina Simone’s Tragic Rise and Fall

She had been the toast of New York City’s pop scene for all of two years, but Nina Simone was alre...

Mar 02, 2010 • The Root

Review: NINA SIMONE: FOUR WOMEN at Geva Theatre

Geva Theatre’s production of Nina Simone: Four Women is, in true Geva fashion, one that both enter...

Jan 23, 2025 • BroadwayWorld

Nina Simone’s gum, Prince shrine: London exhibition explores fandom

"Holy Pop!", presented by London’s Somerset House, explores a modern form of devotion – shrines,...

May 21, 2026 • Reuters on MSN

Nina Simone: Four Women at Geva Theatre

On September 16, 1963, Nina Simone heard that four Black girls were murdered in Birmingham when the ...

Jan 13, 2025 • BroadwayWorld

The show that gave Nina Simone a nervous breakdown: “She became erratic”

Nina Simone famously struggled with bipolar disorder throughout her lifetime, but her first noted me...

May 19, 2026 • Far Out Magazine

"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" by Nina Simone and The Animals

When Nina Simone recorded "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" in 1964, she poured the pain of the Civil ...

Dec 26, 2024 • KBIA

Nick Cave: “Nina Simone was a god to me”

Nina Simone was so much more than just a musical hero to Nick Cave and Warren Ellis; she is their go...

May 10, 2026 • Far Out Magazine

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Aug 12, 2020 • The Mirror