Today, Holiday is revered as one of the most influential musical artists of all time. Time magazine named her 1939 recording of “Strange Fruit” the song of the 20th century. “In this sad ...

How did Billie Holiday die? Holiday’s continued protest via “Strange Fruit” angered Anslinger to no end. His determination to imprison and silence her extended all the way to her death bed.

Holiday closed sets with "Strange Fruit" from 1939 until the final months of her life. In making it her trademark song, she offered solidarity and faithful witness to racial violence and injustice ...

Billie Holiday’s recording of the anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit” has stirred and haunted generations of listeners. A new article from the Journal of African American History, titled ...

Decades after Billie Holiday’s death, ‘Strange Fruit’ is still a searing testament to injustice – and of faithful solidarity with suffering Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University Mon ...

Today, Holiday is revered as one of the most influential musical artists of all time. Time magazine named her 1939 recording of “Strange Fruit” the song of the 20th century. “In this sad, shadowy song ...

It’s the opening lyrics to Billie Holiday’s generation-defying song, Strange Fruit. The melody bare, with trumpets blaring, as heard in our report and played live by musician and retiring ...

Billie Holiday’s ‘Strange Fruit’ is about the lynching of Black people throughout America. The original song was written by songwriter and poet Lewis Allen.

MUSIC AS PROTEST: ‘STRANGE FRUIT’ AND BEYOND ‘STRANGE FRUIT’ BY BILLIE HOLIDAY | Legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday adapted “Strange Fruit” from a poem written by Jewish-American ...

Andra Day is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in "The United States vs. Billie Holiday." ABC7's Hosea Sanders talked to her about a role she was destined to play.

Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at Metropolitan Hospital in New York. The 44-year-old singer arrived after being turned away from a nearby charity hospital on evidence ...

Billie Holiday performs ‘Strange Fruit’ in 1959. Unflinching lyrics. Like so many composers whose songs Holiday recorded – George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, ...