music and message. [ music ] >>> songs like feeling good a put a spell on you and sinner made made nina simone a star. a new documentary is shining a new spotlight on her life and legacy. randall pinkston spoke with her daughter lisa simone kelly who talked about the complicated relationship and why it was important to make the documentary now. >> it was a labor of love my husband and i have worked on for ten years. >> i want to shake people up so bad that when they leave a nightclub where i performed, i just want them to be to pieces chls chls. >> i made a pledge to my mother when she passed away that -- to make sure she would be remembered properly in the way she deserved and the way to be remembered. >> i put a spell on you. >> you said that she was one of the the gratest entertainers of all time but she paid a price. what price? >> yes. oh, my goodness. her heart. her peace of mind. self-actualization awards. being rich. so many material rewards and goals that many artists go for not to mention their own personal satisfaction. my mom forewent many of those things in order to stand up for w

[ cheers and applause ] "nina revisited," a tribute for nina simone is out now. has violated 20 international agreements and is the leading state sponsor of terrorism. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: my thanks to ice t, bella thorne, miss lauryn hill. give it up for the roots from philadelphia, pennsylvania ladies and gentlemen. [ cheers and applause ] stay tuned for "late night with seth meyers." thank you for watching. have a great night. i hope to see you tomorrow. bye bye, everyone. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> announcer: from 30 rockefeller plaza in new york, it's "late night with seth meyers." tonight -- christine baranski. "snl" weekend update anchor colin jost. comedian michael kosta. featuring the 8g band with brad wilk. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] and now, here he is, seth meyers! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: good evening, i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how is everyone doing tonight? [ cheers and applause ]

[ cheers and applause ] "nina revisited," a tribute for nina simone is out now. n. [ cheers and applause ] stay tuned for "late night with seth meyers." thank you for watching. have a great night. i hope to see you tomorrow. bye bye, everyone. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> announcer: from 30 rockefeller plaza in new york, it's "late night with seth meyers." tonight -- christine baranski. "snl" weekend update anchor colin jost. comedian michael kosta. featuring the 8g band with brad wilk. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] and now, here he is, seth meyers! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: good evening, i'm seey

. >>> nina simone. the legendary singer and civil rights activist. and we begin with the shootings in chattanooga and the intense focus on the young man the fbi says murdered four marines. a portrait is emerging of mohammed yousef abdulazeez. a portrait and a transformation that people describe as a agree gairs younggregarious and changed person. hinted at the horror thatched that happened yesterday. lisa stark is in washington. lisa. >> before yesterday mohammed abdulazeez was not on the homeland security radar. part of a widespread investigation. federal investigators are gathering every bit of information they can about mohammed yousef abdulazeez, to try to determine what turned a man described as nice and friendly into a murderer. they are treating this as a terrorist investigation. >> it would be premature to speculate on exactly why the shooter did what he did. however, we are conducting a thorough investigation to determine whether this person acted alone. was inspired or directed. >> agents have searched the family home, computers, cell phone

she's doing a nina simone song, and apparently, it's a a knockout, amazing., we have our man kevin bacon will be here. [ cheers and applause ] mel b., comedian russell howard, and thank you notes. that's on friday. it's going to be good. but first we have a fantastic show tonight. he's a very, very funny guy, very talented actor and writer. he stars in a new film called "the end of the tour." jason segel is here, ladies and gentlemen. [ cheers and applause ] he's good. he's good in this movie, man. he's really good. >> steve: he's good. >> jimmy: jason and i are going to play a game later on this the show. be sure to stick around for that. plus, it's always fun when she stops by. from the animated netflix series "bojack horseman," amy sedaris is dropping in. [ cheers and applause ] she always has a demo or something for me to do. i never know what she's gonna do. but i love her so much. she's one of one my favorite guests. i love amy sedaris. i think she said she wants to help me because my hand is hurt. and so she wants to help me around my house. >> steve:

. >> we hear about a new documentary that focuses on nina simone's music and her message. >> protestors are gathering... >> there's an air of tension right now... >> the crowd chanting for democracy... >> this is another significant development... >> we have an exclusive story tonight, and we go live... >> the football word is mourning former star quarterback ken stabler. he was known as the snake playing for the oakland raiders leading to a superbowl win in 1977. he was diagnosed with cancer last year. his family said his brain and spine have been donated to researchers studying concussions. >> the usa women's soccer team will go through it the canyon of heroes. the team captured a new audience with this big win. >> this is a practice session for the seattle rain, one of nine teams in the national women's soccer league. the league is averaging about 4,000 people per game. it's in its third year, but those attendance figures are skewed by what's happening in portland, where the portland thorns in a soccer mad city are drawing about 13,000 per game. ticket sales have skyrocketed here, ju

. >>> and we'll look at the jazz activist, nina simone. the legendary singer's deep, raspy voice that made her a unique figure in the music world. on the eve of a new documentary about her life. i'll have those stories and more in just a few minutes tony. >> erica, thank you. >>> a new report shows that up to 80% of girls in detention centers have a history of sexual abuse. the report was released by the human rights project for girls and it includes girls as young as 13 who were arrested for prostitution. services for girls in the juvenile justice system. >>> big questions today over why high paying jobs advertised on google are only shown to certain internet users. surveys suggest that the search giant may be promoting discrimination. >> the study comes from carnegie university. they used fake profiles to visit the same job sites. only difference is gender. females were shown fewer ads about high paying jobs than males. for example a career coaching job for males paying $100,000 or more were shown to men 1800 times, and the same ads were

. ♪ ♪ [music break] amy: "strange fruit," nina simone. this is democracy now!ow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we continue our conversation with bree newsome who scaled the flagpole and took down the confederate flag from the south carolina state capital. they each face a $5,000 fine and three years in jail. bree: it was restored to its original condition in 45 minutes. i maintain my innocence of defacing state property. amy: it is my understanding that that heavy fine and sentence for that act came from 2000, the compromise to bring the confederate flag down from off the capital and next to the monument, that part of that compromise was to up the penalty against anyone who would deface the flag, if you want to call it the facing. bree: again, it is pretty amazing when you look at it how much more protection is placed around this flag of treason and the symbol of hate then even the united states, the flag of the united states of america. i think it is a moment for us all to do a values check. jimmy: it is definitely a dumb moment. bree: yeah. a

. >> nina simone in "train wreck 2" -- i'm sorry, we have to interrupt you, clay.ke a listen. >> thank you very much for your patience. i know everybody has been waiting for a long period of time and i'm not going to go on at length at all, but i did want to bring everybody up to speed because i think there is a lot of speculation, and i want to make sure that it's based on some sense of reality. this evening my foreign minister colleagues are returning here to vienna. and it is now time -- there we go -- it's now time to see whether or not we are able to close an agreement. in many ways this negotiation has been going on for literally a number of years. and over the past few days we have in fact made genuine progress. but i want to be absolutely clear with everybody. we are not yet where we need to be on several of the most difficult issues. and the truth is that while i completely agree with foreign minister zareef that we have never been closer at this point this negotiation could go either way. if hard choices get made in the next couple of days and made quickl