Valerie Stephens Presents Nina Simone at Amazing Things Arts Center

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Each generation develops its own language. Hip-hop is the language of this generation. Nina Simone sang for the previous generation of activists and dissenters. The messages of both groups are universal and Nina Simone’s music and message are still very relevant but not well known. “Nina’s unapologetic rage and accusatory voice named names and took no prisoners in the African-American struggle for equality in the early 1960s. Her triumphant voice sang what it meant to be young, gifted and black in a sometimes unjust and troubled world” (Hall of Fame announcement 2017).