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Nina Simone (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon February 21, 1933 April 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist who worked in a broad range of musical styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop. ... ... ( read more! ) Lisa Simone Waymon Stroud, known by her stage name, Simone, is an American singer and actress, known for her work in the Broadway theatre field. She is the daughter of the late American vocalist and civil rights activist Nina Simone. ... ... ( read more! ) ... ... George Wein (October 3, 1925 September 13, 2021) was an American jazz promoter, pianist, and producer. He was the founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, which is held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. He also co-founded the Newport Folk Festival with Pete Seeger and Theodore Bikel and was instrumental in the founding of the New Orleans Jazz an ... ... ( read more! ) ... ... Daughter of Malcolm X ... ... ( read more! ) ... ... ... ... James Arthur Baldwin was an African-American novelist essayist playwright poet and social critic. His essays as collected in Notes of a Native Son explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial sexual and class distinctions in Western societies most notably in mid-20th-century America and their inevitable if unnameable tensions ... ... ( read more! )