![]() Posthumously, Nina Simone injects herself into the lifeblood of Black America whenever we need her music. Despite this, we still can recognize the real story of a woman who was ahead of her time, and the burdens that came with being an artist that resisted all the world sought to lay on her. Even now, as racially tense times and a new biographic documentary give rise to a Nina Simone renaissance, her legacy has to compete What Happened, Miss Simone? is given narrative arc through the words of her abusive ex-husband, who was her original manager. She battled White supremacist society and chauvinist mistreatment throughout the entirety of her life. She had to be better than everyone else-exceptional-first as a Black classically trained pianist and then be better again on top of that because she was a Black woman. But it would do her a disservice to divorce Simone from the importance of her gendered existence. Her free expression and personality carry liberation for all Black people, via her insistence that Blackness was something to be proud of. ![]() In this, it is the sheer temerity of the Black womanhood of Nina Simone that defies much more than she is still ever given credit for. ![]()
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