13. The 1966 song, Four Women, was a feminist anthem way ahead of its time
It wasn’t just Civil Rights in general that Nina’s music commented upon. In 1966, she wrote the song, Four Women, which explored the plight of African-American women specifically. The song confronted issues around body image, and the prevailing assumption that real beauty was only found in Caucasian women, and that any deviation from this ‘norm’ was inferior. It also confronted four stereotypes of black women, and highlighted how society absurdly determined their personalities and behavior based entirely on their physical appearance. It seems that only now is the world catching up with Nina’s views, over fifty years later.
