Strange Fruit singer died penniless after US government targeted her jazz career

Billie Holiday was one of the most influential jazz and blues singers of all time, but her life was devastated by racism, ...
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Decades after Billie Holiday’s death, ‘Strange Fruit’ is still a searing testament to injustice – and of faithful solidarity with suffering

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Billie Holiday records her penultimate album, 'Lady in Satin,' in New York in 1957. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Today, ...
Fast Company

Why Billie Holiday’s ‘Strange Fruit’ still echoes injustice

Singer Billie Holiday records her penultimate album, Lady in Satin, at the Columbia Records studio in December 1957 in New York City. [Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images] Abel Meeropol, a New ...
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Laibach Share New Interpretation of 'Strange Fruit'

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Laibach have announced details of “Strange Fruit”, a three-track single release ...
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The Rosenberg/Strange Fruit Project

Most know of the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg case, but few know the story of their youngest child, Robert, orphaned at six following his parents' execution for espionage and adopted by Abel Meeropol ...
The Michigan Daily

Strange fruit

My father’s grandfather was a train conductor in Toledo, Ohio. Samuel David Hocker died in 1946 at the age of 63. Cause of death: blunt force trauma. In a freak accident, he had crashed his train. Yet ...
Religion News Service

Decades after Billie Holiday’s death, ‘Strange Fruit’ is still a searing testament to injustice – and of faithful solidarity with suffering

(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 ...