Billie Holiday
Sang Strange Fruit — a lynching described plainly, in a nightclub, in 1939 — and kept singing it under federal pressure to stop for the rest of her life.
Black excellence, on the record
The RecordThey made it impossible to look away
Sang Strange Fruit — a lynching described plainly, in a nightclub, in 1939 — and kept singing it under federal pressure to stop for the rest of her life.