"One night, in 1939, Billie Holiday stood on stage in New York City and sang a song that was unlike..."

“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.”



- The Hunting of Billie Holiday - Johann Hari - POLITICO Magazine

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