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Strange fruit: How Billie Holiday's performance of the anti-lynching song politicized Black consciousnessB illie 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 ...
Its vivid imagery of lynching, comparing Black bodies to “strange fruit” hanging from Southern trees, forced listeners to confront the brutal realities of racism. But how did this ...
"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 ...
Welancora Gallery shines a spotlight on 81-year-old artist Helen Evans Ramsaran, who makes bronze sculpture inspired by ...
Yzabel Tio sang John Lennon’s “Imagine,” and Valerie Hart-Craig read the anti-lynching “Strange Fruit” by Abel Meeropol. At the end, Jeanne Rewa, project coordinator for Facing Injustice ...
Show more For her final televised performance in 1959, Bilie Holiday chose to sing her iconic song Strange Fruit, the powerful anti-lynching anthem. This extraordinary performance for British ...
On December 30, 1952, the Tuskegee Institute reported that 1952 was the first year of no lynchings of African Americans in the United States in the 71 years it had kept records. Learn more about ...
"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 ...
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