Nina Simone
| Born | February 21, 1933 |
| Hometown | Tryon, North Carolina, United States |
| Net worth | $5 million |
| Spouse | Andy Stroud, Donald Ross |
| Children | Lisa Simone |
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While activists have pulled down statues to old white colonialists, Tavares Strachan prefers to raise monuments to overlooked and forgotten figures of black history. Outside the Bahamian artist’s Hayward retrospective is a huge, sculpted head, like a ruined fragment of an even bigger colossus, of the 20th-century pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey, who dreamed of returning the black diaspora to a politically united Africa.
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