Women such as Marita Bonner, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Nella Larsen, Bessie Smith, Nina Simone, and Augusta Savage played a vital role in defining the legacy of the Harlem Renaissance, which was a rebirth of Black artistic expression that reshaped American literature, music and art.
Nina Simone
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“These are love songs and each captured something of the careful combination of intimacy and immediacy on stage for which Simone was known.”