DAILY: February 21, 2020

It is Nina Simone’s birthday.  I have been listening to her all day.

Breakfast in bed in Paris. 1988. Photographer unknown. Thank you, David Cale for posting this on Facebook today.

Here she talks about what compels her to be so compelled to insist on her blackness and that it be celebrated.

 

 

“BLACK IS THE COLOR OF MY TRUE LOVE’S HAIR”

 

Photo by Teenie Harris
Photo by John Minihan. 1978
Photo by Peter Williams

 

  • Kevin Sessums is the author of two New York Times bestselling memoirs, Mississippi Sissy and I Left It on the Mountain.

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