Langston Hughes first met Nina Simone in 1949, when he visited her high school chapter of the NAACP. Their decades-long friendship would become a cultural cornerstone of the Black Power era.
Langston Hughes first met Nina Simone in 1949, when he visited her high school chapter of the NAACP. Their decades-long friendship would become a cultural cornerstone of the Black Power era.
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