The story behind the song "Strange Fruit" is well-known. Shocked by a postcard bearing a photograph of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abraham Smith in Marion, Ind., Bronx schoolteacher Abel Meeropol ...
Billie Holiday's recording of the anti-lynching song "Strange Fruit" has stirred and haunted generations of listeners. A new article in the Journal of African American History, titled "Professional ...
START THIS MORNING SHOW. LET’S LEARN ABOUT THE RETURN OF A LOCAL MUSIC FESTIVAL. YEAH, THE STRANGE FRUIT MUSIC FESTIVAL IS THIS SATURDAY IN LEBAUER PARK. THIS ANNUAL EVENT IS HOSTED BY THE TRIAD BASED ...
Billie Holiday helped shape American popular music with her voice and unique style. But, her legacy extends way beyond music with one song in... Strange Fruit Strange Fruit Billie Holiday helped shape ...
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 ...
Tracy Fessenden has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Henry Luce Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Today, Holiday is revered as one of the ...
"Strange Fruit" can feel like a period piece, more a memorial than a protest song. Rare are the performers who have invested it with new meaning,... The story behind the song "Strange Fruit" is ...