Be Glad That You Are Free: On Nina Simone, Miles Ahead, Lemonade, Lauryn Hill and Prince

Max S. Gordon
56 min readJan 17, 2018

by Max S. Gordon

(This piece orginally appeared at The New Civil Rights Movement on May 15, 2016)

“Everybody is half dead. Everybody avoids everybody, all over the place, in most situations, most all the time. I know, I’m one of those everybodys…All I’m trying to do, all the time, is to

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Max S. Gordon

Max S. Gordon is a writer and activist. His work has appeared in on-line and print magazines in the U.S. and internationally. Follow Max on twitter:@maxgordon19