Shana L. Redmond

professor of English and comparative literature, Columbia University

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“You’ve Got to Learn,” a previously unreleased recording of Nina Simone’s set at the 1966 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, is now widely available.

Nina Simone’s music is ‘political speech for her always and forever”

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