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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will address one of the biggest abortion cases in 20 years.

We remember her fondly from her 1972 appearance on Sesame Street where she sang "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" to four little children on a studio-built stoop.

The actress gets candid on her political beliefs and the controversy behind her Nina Simone biopic.

The Nina Simone Biopic starring Zoe Saldana will be hitting theaters this December. The movie will be about Nina’s life as a iconic singer-songwriter and civil rights activist. SOURCE: https://instagram.com/p/7eUPrpPk3B/?tagged=zoesaldana

It looks like Nina starring Zoe Saldana is finally going to be released soon. The Nina Simone biopic will hit theaters in December, according to Entertainment Weekly. It’s…

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of Revolution opens in New York at the Film Forum this week, before showing at the AMC Magic Johnson Theaters and beginning a limited national release.  The film is the first feature-length documentary on the Black Panther Party, developed over the past seven years by celebrated filmmaker Stan Nelson, whose previous works include Freedom […]

At the FYF Fest, Solange Knowles performed a rendition of Nina Simone’s  ‘Young, Gifted and Black.’ She took the moment to instagram sharing her experience along with Dev Haynes, Moses Sumney and Soul trio KING. “I truly feel proud to say in this moment I felt so young, gifted and black, something I for so long felt […]

Among the many great Black writers in canons of Black literature, the renowned James Baldwin etched his mark in history with his candid and brilliant words on…

Eight-time Grammy Award winner Lauryn Hill performs Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good” on the ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.’ The soul singer is also featured on Nina Simone’s tribute album “Nina Revisited: A Tribute to Nina Simone.” The tribute is part of the Netflix documentary of Nina Simon What Happened, Miss Simone. Check out the full […]

Lauryn Hill has released yet another Nina Simone cover, as the Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone approaches its July 26th release date.  “Black Is The Color Of My True Love’s Hair” is the latest cover to be released from Hill.  She has already released a cover of “Feeling Good,” and blessed us with a […]