Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In March 1939, a then-23-year-old Billie Holiday closed out her set at New York's Cafe Society with a song she hadn't performed ...

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 ...

Billie Holiday’s recording of the anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit” has stirred and haunted generations of listeners. A new article from the Journal of African American History, titled “Professional ...

Jazz singer Billie Holiday’s song “Strange Fruit” paints a vivid scene of the lynchings that happened across the American South in the early 20th century. The lyrics compare the hanged bodies of Black ...

Billie Holiday in 1954 (left); Billy Crystal in June 2025. Amanda Edwards/Getty;Gilles Petard/Redferns His uncle Milt Gabler produced one of jazz legend Billie Holiday's seminal singles: "Strange ...

When Billie Holiday dared to sing Strange Fruit — a haunting protest against lynchings — she became a target. The head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN), Harry J. Anslinger, used the “war on ...

In March 1939, a then-23-year-old Billie Holiday closed out her set at New York's Cafe Society with a song she hadn't performed before: "Strange Fruit." Written by Jewish schoolteacher Abel Meeropol, ...

Billie 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 "Professional ...