W. Jason Miller @ Southern Festival of Books
October 18 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
Nina Simone, Langston Hughes, and the Birth of Black Power
by W. Jason Miller
248 pp., 30 halftones
ISBN 978-1-4696-9821-2 $30.00 cloth
Publication date: September 29, 2026
For more information: https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469698212/dont-let-me-be-misunderstood/
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Langston Hughes and Nina Simone had one of the most important–yet unheralded–friendships of the Black Power era. In Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood, W. Jason Miller offers a riveting history of how their relationship helped spark the birth of Black Power.