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The year is 1969. At Mount Morris Park in Harlem, New York City, Nina Simone, the ‘High Priestess of Soul’, stands on a psychedelic stage, looking regal in a yellow dress and a towering top knot. She’s just finished a rousing performance of To Be Young, Gifted and Black, and she tells the audience – a vibrant sea of mostly Black women, men and children – that she has something to read to them. It’s a poem by David Nelson of the Last Poets, called Are You Ready, Black People? “Are you ready to smash white things?” Simone reads from a piece of paper. “Are you ready to build black things?” The crowd responds with cheers. It’s a magical moment: somewhere between music and protest, between celebration and a call-to-action. 

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