Nina Simone's Life Was Defining

Nina Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Wayman on February 21, 1933. She was something of a child prodigy and encouraged to play the church organ. Her family and her local community pinned all their hopes on her being this black concert pianist. But when she was turned down to go to an institute, it was a wound from which she never recovered. Do you think prejudice has now gone? Would someone like Nina Simone encounter any kind of prejudice now? Have you ever noticed it?