Nina. Fucking. Simone. There were some incredible artists during that time and then there was Nina Simone. Everything about her was amazing, from her childhood through the end of her career.

She sang this song -- totally new -- when MLK was killed. It is absolutely heartbreaking:

https://youtu.be/JkPjEKCTKME

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On her debut album for Philips, Nina Simone in Concert (1964), for the first time she addressed racial inequality in the United States in the song "Mississippi Goddam". This was her response to the June 12, 1963, murder of Medgar Evers and the September 15, 1963, bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four young black girls and partly blinded a fifth. She said that the song was "like throwing ten bullets back at them", becoming one of many other protest songs written by Simone. The song was released as a single, and it was boycotted in some[vague] southern states.[31][32] Promotional copies were smashed by a Carolina radio station and returned to Philips.[33] She later recalled how "Mississippi Goddam" was her "first civil rights song" and that the song came to her "in a rush of fury, hatred and determination". The song challenged the belief that race relations could change gradually and called for more immediate developments: "me and my people are just about due". It was a key moment in her path to Civil Rights activism.[34] "Old Jim Crow", on the same album, addressed the Jim Crow laws. After "Mississippi Goddam", a civil rights message was the norm in Simone's recordings and became part of her concerts.

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Thanks, laura.

In reply to this comment by laura:
*promote please

All better now, thanks. I didn't use the embed you suggested, the one I used is the same footage with "Go to Hell" tacked on to the end.

In reply to this comment by EndAll:
Fix - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjcJjLUgZ08

http://videosift.com/video/Obama-Anacron-feat-Nina-Simone

He's not that good of a rapper, so they can have him. I'll take Anacron and Nina Simone over Hi Caliber anyday.

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love love love nina simone

personally i think more magic than philosophy. though there doesn't seem to be much real magic in the 'magic' channel ...

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Nina Simone has such a haunting voice.

I didn't know Nina Simone did this song originally. Here's the wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Let_Me_Be_Misunderstood