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Harry Styles’ New Video Serves Up Martinis, Suits And Phoebe Waller-Bridge

The former One Directioner dropped the video for his song “Treat People With Kindness” on Friday, which stars the “Fleabag” creator and star in a black-and-white cinematic experience. Waller-Bridge appears at…

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Nina Simone was an African-American singer, pianist and civil rights activist. Her birth name was Eunice Kathleen Waymon. She was born in Tryon, North Carolina to Mary Kate Waymon and John Divine Waymon. She was the sixth of seventh children and the family was quite poor when Simone was growing

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