One of Billie Holiday's most iconic songs is "Strange Fruit," a haunting protest against the inhumanity of racism. Many people know that the man who wrote the song was inspired by a photograph of a ...

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, ...

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 ...

On February 26, closing out Black History Month, I came to Joe's Pub for Strange Fruit — produced and directed by Venus Cuffs — to listen and be educated. Showing up, paying attention, and letting art ...

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 ...

Grammy-nominated singer Andra Day, in a still from The United States Vs. Billie Holiday. The song "Strange Fruit" was written by a man named Abel Meeropol in the 1930s — but it will forever be ...

A Texas public relations firm with clients in San Antonio has changed its name after the company was barraged with social media messages questioning why they used a name most affiliated with a 1937 ...

In the past, or perhaps this present, a white America would look upon our bodies stiff and dead before the bloat set in.

(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 ...

Today, Holiday is revered as one of the most influential musical artists of all time. Time magazine named her 1939 recording of “Strange Fruit” the song of the 20th century. “In this sad, shadowy song ...