"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 ...

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 famous.

Billie Holiday's voice remains one of the most unique talents the world of music ... songs to convey powerful and uncomfortable messages. This is particularly true for the song "Strange Fruit ...