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Nina Simone Knew Just What the Trouble Was. (It’s Still the Trouble.)

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By Wesley Morris 
| The New York Times
Wesley Morris is a Times critic who writes about art and popular culture. June 8, 2026 Here we are, near the end of “Mississippi Goddam,” Nina Simone’s first original protest song of the civil rights era. It touched down in 1964. The previous year, the civil rights activist Medgar Evers had been assassinated outside his home in Jackson, Miss., and four girls had been murdered in a church bombing orchestrated by members of the Ku Klux Klan in Birmingham, Ala.
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Why We Still Need Steven Spielberg

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By Wesley Morris 
| The New York Times
On Jan. 1, something amazing happened. Steven Spielberg, a longtime Angeleno and most people’s dictionary definition of “Hollywood director,” became a New York City resident. On the one hand, this is a significant event. What classic Spielberg location requires a 212 or 718 or 646 to phone home?
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Why We Still Need Steven Spielberg

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By Wesley Morris 
| Flipboard
7 hours ago We are the survivors of immense and minute events — violent cosmic collisions and subtle genetic mutations, the deaths of innumerable suns and the births of innumerable cells, the splitting of continents and the splitting of atoms. Out of it all, we emerged as creatures muzzled by a consciousness …
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