Nina

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Natural Sciences, History, Documentary, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Producer Tracie Hunte stumbled into a duet between Nina Simone and the sounds of protest outside her apartment. Then she discovered a performance by Nina on April 7, 1968 - three days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Tracie talks about what Nina’s music, born during another time when our country was facing questions that seemed to have no answer, meant then and why it still resonates today. Listen to Nina's brother, Samuel Waymon, talk about that April 7th concert here.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:03.1	Okay.
0:04.4	All right.
0:05.6	Okay.
0:07.0	All right.
0:08.5	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:11.4	Radio Lab.
0:11.9	From W. N. Y.
0:13.9	C.
0:14.8	See?
0:15.1	Yep.
0:19.4	Ooh, no, no, that's awful.
0:21.3	Putting my headphones back in.
0:23.5	This week at a staff meeting, our producer, Tracy Hunt, told us the story.
0:28.5	Really, it was a story of a moment from the weekend as the protests in response to the killing of George Floyd were really escalating.
0:37.2	And you hurt in my headphones?
0:39.0	I just asked her to tell me that story again on tape.
0:43.5	Okay, so you were listening to a certain song.
0:45.5	Oh, yeah.
0:46.7	What happened exactly? Can you set the scene?
0:49.3	Yeah. Yeah, it was Saturday, and I had been feeling pretty sad all day, just feeling kind of grumpy.
0:59.1	And I was like, okay, you know what?
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