Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” is not just a song—it’s a chilling piece of American history set to music. When the jazz icon first performed this haunting ballad in 1939, audiences ...

So Time magazine wrote in 1999 when they voted "Strange Fruit" the Song of the Century. The jazz singer referred to was Billie Holiday who came to be so closely associated with the song that she ...

"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 ...