For this week’s Listen Here post, we are sharing a fascinating and informative episode from the Classic Album Sundays and Studio 360 podcast series This Woman’s Work, which highlights classic albums by female artists who have made a lasting impact on music and pop culture. On this episode, iconic activist and scholar Angela Davis, and drummer/composer Terri Lyne Carrington discuss Nina Simone’s 1970 classic album Black Gold, and it’s significant impact during the civil rights movement in the US.

In this podcast episode, Davis tells the story of first meeting Nina Simone while she was in jail, and why Carrington considers the jazz great to be the greatest the greatest storyteller that ever lived. The episode also talks about the strong socially conscious messages behind the music on this recording, and how Nina Simone used her music to enact change in the world.

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This Woman’s Work: Black Gold by Nina Simone

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