1968: after King, Why? and ‘Nuff Said!
In 1968, the year Martin Luther King was murdered and Nina Simone answered with Why? (The King of Love Is Dead) and the live album ‘Nuff Said!, she speaks about Black identity, responsibility, and the cost of being needed. She skips the polite activist tone. She calls it duty, said without apology, by a pianist who had already left the Juilliard path for the nightclub and then refused to keep the nightclub separate from history. You hear firmness as well as elegance. She keeps the talk, the stage and the street in the same conversation.
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