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 ...

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 ...

Most famously recorded by jazz icon Billie Holiday in 1939, "Strange Fruit" is a song of rage and sadness spurred by the lack of humanity afforded to Black people in America. Although it’s ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(The Conversation) — Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died ... in the Southern breeze / Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.” Holiday’s rendition of Meeropol ...