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17 hours ago · Billie Holiday performs ‘Strange Fruit’ in 1959. Unflinching lyrics. Like so many composers whose songs Holiday recorded – George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern – Meeropol ...
16 hours ago · Mon, July 15, 2024, 9:49 AM EDT · 6 min read. Billie Holiday's rendition of "Strange Fruit" remains a testament to injustice decades after the singer's death. File Photo courtesy of the Library ...
1 day ago · “Strange Fruit” was different. The song gazes unflinchingly on the “strange fruit” of the title: hanged, burned and mangled flesh left to rot on a tree. Well into the 20th century, white vigilante mobs murdered thousands of Black Americans with impunity: lynching then leaving their bodies on display as a terrorist spectacle.
6 hours ago · “Strange Fruit” was different. The song gazes unflinchingly on the “strange fruit” of the title: hanged, burned and mangled flesh left to rot on a tree. Well into the 20th century, white vigilante mobs murdered thousands of Black Americans with impunity: lynching then leaving their bodies on display as a terrorist spectacle.
1 day ago · Holiday closed sets with “Strange Fruit” from 1939 until the final months of her life. In making it her trademark song, she offered solidarity and faithful witness to racial violence and ...
4 days ago · “Strange Fruit” (1939) – Billie Holiday Inspired by Jewish American Abel Meeropol’s poem , the haunting and controversial “ Strange Fruit ” was written as a response to the horrifying ...
1 day ago · “Strange Fruit” was different. The song gazes unflinchingly on the “strange fruit” of the title: hanged, burned and mangled flesh left to rot on a tree. Well into the 20th century, white vigilante mobs murdered thousands of Black Americans with impunity: lynching then leaving their bodies on display as a terrorist spectacle.
