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 ...

Feb. 21—"Southern trees bear a strange fruit/ Blood on the leaves and blood at the root/ Black body swinging in the Southern breeze/ Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees." It is one of the ...

It is a beautifully sung protest of a deeply inhumane American legacy of racism — lynching. Imagine, only in 2020, the House passed The Emmett Till Antilynching Act, making lynching a federal crime.

“Southern trees bear a strange fruit / Blood on the leaves and blood at the root / Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze / Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.” When Billie Holiday sang ...

On Aug. 7, 1930, two young African-American men were lynched by a mob in Marion, Ind. The night before they had been charged with murdering a... Strange Fruit: Anniversary Of A Lynching Eighty years ...

Jazz singer Billie Holiday’s song “Strange Fruit” paints a vivid scene of the lynchings that happened across the American South in the early 20th century. The lyrics compare the hanged bodies of Black ...

“Strange Fruit,” written by Abel Meeropol and recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939, captures the sadness and sadistic nature of lynchings in America. Its lyrics compose with horrifying imagery the ...

It is a haunting song: "Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze, / Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees." Strange fruit hanging from trees referred to black men lynched and left hanging ...

There are often false narratives we tell ourselves so that we can simplify, and beautify, the past and erase aspects of the present that we are uncomfortable with. Take the view that the olden times ...

Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. IT'S EASY to see why Time magazine voted "Strange Fruit" the Best Song of the Century, and why the British magazine Q called it one of "10 songs that ...

(The Conversation) — 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 ...