Three days after the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968, performer Nina Simone and her band played at the Westbury Music Festival on Long Island, N.Y. They performed "Why? (The King of Love is Dead)," a song they had just learned, written by their bass player Gene Taylor in reaction to King's death.
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Those sickened by U.S. nuclear testing program take their fight to Congress
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People who live near the areas where nuclear weapons were tested say their
communities still suffer harm and are pressing Congress to renew funding to
help...
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