This is particularly true for the song "Strange Fruit," which she first performed in 1938. According to PBS, Billie would always sing this song without an encore, which was followed by the lights ...

A Jewish teacher named Abel Meeropol published the text of "Strange Fruit" as a poem in 1937. White leftists adapted it to music, but Holiday—a 23-year-old Black jazz singer—made the song ...

"In this sad, shadowy song about lynching in the South, history's greatest jazz singer comes to terms with history itself". So Time magazine wrote in 1999 when they voted "Strange Fruit" the Song ...

The independent label, founded in 1938 in mid-Manhattan, made its mark on music history by recording Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” and other songs by jazz legends such as Lester Young ...

"It still amazes me how twelve lines can change the world," says Joel Katz, the director of Strange Fruit, a documentary about the thirties anti-lynching protest song. Written by Abel Meeropol ...