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The Term "Strange Fruit" Was Made Famous by a Billie Holiday Song — It Has a Deep Meaning

Billie Holiday's voice remains one of the most unique talents the world of music has ever experienced. As a jazz singer, her improvisational skills were unmatched. She was also a distinctly soulful ...
UPI

'Strange Fruit': Billie Holiday song remains a testament to injustice

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 of ...
Yahoo

6 inspiring Black protest songs, from 'Strange Fruit' to Kendrick Lamar’s 'Alright'

Black America has a long and winding history of using songs for defiance and consolation. Testimonies from slave ship sailors recall how kidnapped Africans during the Atlantic slave trade sang to send ...
Fast Company

Why Billie Holiday’s ‘Strange Fruit’ still echoes injustice

Singer Billie Holiday records her penultimate album, Lady in Satin, at the Columbia Records studio in December 1957 in New York City. [Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images] Abel Meeropol, a New ...
WGBH

The Music of Civil Rights, from Strange Fruit to The Roots

Doors open 15 minutes in advance of the program. Registrations are at or over room capacity, registrants who arrive more than 10 minutes after the start of the program will have their reservation ...