One night, in 1939, Billie Holiday stood on stage in New York City - TopicsExpress



          

One night, in 1939, Billie Holiday stood on stage in New York City and sang a song that was unlike anything anyone had heard before. ‘Strange Fruit’ was a musical lament against lynching. It imagined black bodies hanging from trees as a dark fruit native to the South. Here was a black woman, before a mixed audience, grieving for the racist murders in the United States. Immediately after, Billie Holiday received her first threat from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. politico/magazine/story/2015/01/drug-war-the-hunting-of-billie-holiday-114298.html#.VL3CyMbvbww
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 02:53:17 +0000

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