In March 1939, a then-23-year-old Billie Holiday closed out her set at New York's Cafe Society with a song she hadn't performed before: "Strange Fruit." Written by Jewish schoolteacher Abel ...

Billie Holiday” has revived interest in the hauntingly beautiful and controversial song “Strange Fruit,” which Holiday first popularized in the late 1930s. The film details the numerous ways ...

Singer Billie Holiday records her penultimate album ... and songwriter who used the pen name Lewis Allan, wrote “Strange Fruit” after seeing a photograph of a lynching that shocked and ...

And like the charred economic landscape painted in “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime,” Billie Holiday’s searing reading of “Strange Fruit” still has the power to startle. It casts a dark ...

Music legend Billie Holiday is regarded as one of the most soulful American singers of the ‘50s. But her most powerful song, “Strange Fruit,” put Holiday on the federal government’s hit ...

When she sang "Strange Fruit," Billie was reminded of her father's death. In her autobiography, Billie wrote that Clarence Holiday was refused treatment for a lung disease that ultimately killed him.

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

Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at ... body swinging in the Southern breeze / Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees." Holiday's rendition of Meeropol's song ...

Holiday stuck to her setlist, including singing“Strange Fruit,” a hauntingly emotional song against lynching with lyrics like “Southern trees bear strange fruit / Blood on the leaves and ...

Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at ... swinging in the Southern breeze / Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.” Holiday’s rendition of Meeropol’s song ...

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 ...