‘Nina’ biopic can’t live up to the potent legacy of Simone

In an interview with Rolling Stone last month, Lisa Simone Kelly, the daughter of the late, great jazz/blues artist Nina Simone, voiced her extreme displeasure with “Nina,” the latest biopic of her legendary mother. Simone Kelly’s comments were fueled by a social media storm that erupted over the casting of the light-skinned Zoe Saldana to […]

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