Nina Simone

safely assume that she was referring to the 16th Street Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama (History.com) and to the death of Medgar Evers, who was a major civil rights activist from Mississippi according to Alan Light’s What Happened Miss Simone (97). Nina goes on to speak about her frustrations with America and wanting equality for black people. The curse word in the title made many radio stations ban the song. Light elaborates on how there is a straightforwardness in Nina’s lyrics, and how it

Nina Simone, whose real name was Eunice Kathleen Waymon, was one the greatest folk-jazz and blues singers of all time and a passionate civil rights activist. She was raised by her father, John Divine Waymon, who worked as a barber and dry cleaner, and her mother, Mary Kate Waymon, who was a Methodist preacher. Eunice was the second youngest of her six siblings. She was born on February 21st, 1933. Throughout Nina’s life, she was faced with challenges that she had to overcome to be successful. She

A Moment to Remember Some things will stick with you forever, as for me it was words I will never forget. It is about the time my dad told me that he was proud of me. It was sweet music to my ears, like a Billy Holiday or a Nina Simone song. It was a moment that would live on till the day I die. Words matter the most when it comes from one who means the world to you. I am my father first child out of four children. Growing up I never wanted to disappoint him. Although, my dad rarely expresses himself

Hansberry’s assertive character, Beneatha, connects to the messages from classic Motown songs of the time period such as: inequality, identity, and respect. These songs sing of some characteristics and problems Beneatha holds. Through the soulful sound of Nina Simone’s song, “Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free”, a cry for equality is heard that is similar to the one from Beneatha in A Raisin in the Sun. Hansberry's play is set in the 1950s and incorporates the social issues prevalent with in the time

Nina Simone was one of the most unique, influential, and gifted singers of her generation. She was born on February 21, 1933 as Eunice Waymon, in Tryon, North Carolina. Her mother was a preacher and she started playing piano at an early age, around 3 or 4 at her mother’s church, as she was playing piano at a local recital she caught the eye of an older white woman willing to give her lessons. Nina went on to studying classical piano for 5 years with the woman, learning the stylings of the classical

This song was created for a british musical and other artists have covered the song but Nina Simone covered the song for her 1965 album “I Put a Spell On You” and brought the most attention and notoriety to the it. The speaker is someone who is trying to finding their own confidence and how to recover from bad days and when they figure it out how they feel. The first stanza she mentions mundane things that most people would not see the meaning or beauty in like “birds flying high” and “sun in the

What happened, Nina Simone by Liz Garbus illustrates the life of Eunice Kathleen Waymon, a musical child prodigy who journeys through the life of being an entertainer in the music industry. Garbus argues how fame can negatively affect an entertainer’s behavior and can cause depression and anger. The evidence Liz Garbus uses to support his argument is seen in pictures of Nina Simone’s journal entries and in the interview from her daughter, Lisa Simone. Nina’s journal entries were full of depressed

Christian Dominguez-Pineda Mr. Young Zoology 11 December, 2017 Animals in entertainment Animals in entertainment environments has been a controversial topic for years. The thought of taking an animal out of their environment and into a zoo captive is very upsetting to some people; others see animal captivity as a need to study and see the animals up-close in an environment, to entertain our minds of the animals in our planet. The animals that are brought into zoos or other entertainment places for

Recently in class we observed the controversial film A Raisin in the Sun which initially was a play written by Lorraine Hansberry in the late 1950s. Lorraine was the youngest of her siblings and grew up in rural Chicago back during the era of segregation. It was evident that her hard trials growing up directly correlated with this film as the setting of the plot occurred in her hometown, Chicago, right before the Civil Rights Movement began. This explicit film vividly conveyed many important issues

There are 1,957 four-year colleges in the United States. There are 76 with an eagle as a mascot, 46 which use the tiger, and 39 bulldogs. Yet there is only one college who has a spider as a mascot. Spiders are often popularly known as mean and scary. So why would a university choose a spider as a mascot? In researching this essay, I found that the answer lies in the history of baseball at Richmond. Apparently the term "spider" was first used to describe Puss Ellyson, a baseball pitcher in 1894 because