‘STRANGE FRUIT’ BY BILLIE HOLIDAY | Legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday adapted “Strange Fruit” from a poem written by Jewish-American teacher Abel Meeropol. The song was a soulful indictment of the ...

2024 marks 85 years since Billie Holiday made her iconic recording of the song Strange Fruit [20th April 1939]. "Southern trees bear a strange fruit, blood on the leaves and blood at the root..." From ...

As British singer Rebecca Ferguson says she’d be willing to accept an invitation to perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration—but only if she’s allowed to sing Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit”—we discuss ...

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 ...

Billie Holiday's 'Strange Fruit' lyrics were controversial to some and powerful to others. The song was Holiday's way of protesting the lynching of Black people during the Jim Crow era, and it angered ...

Billie Holiday records her penultimate album, 'Lady in Satin,' in New York in 1957. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Today, Holiday is revered as one of the most influential musical artists of all ...

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 ...

The inspiration for "Strange Fruit" reportedly came to Jewish poet Abel Meeropol in 1937, after he saw a photograph of two Black men lynched before a grinning white crowd. The song still resonates ...

Sometimes even PR firms need to hire PR consultants. That seems to be the lesson of "Strange Fruit Public Relations," an Austin, Texas-based PR firm that has committed to rebranding after being ...

“Playing in the Shins is like being an astronaut in my day job,” says Fruit Bats front man Eric Johnson while en route to a set of shows in San Francisco. “With Fruit Bats, I’m really passionate about ...