Billie Holiday records her penultimate album, 'Lady in Satin,' in New York in 1957. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Today, Holiday is revered as one of the most influential musical artists of all ...

Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at Metropolitan Hospital in New York. The 44-year-old singer arrived after being turned away from a nearby charity hospital on evidence of ...

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 from the Journal of African American History, titled “Professional ...

*NEW YORK – Andra Day, the award-winning singer, songwriter, and philanthropist, released today a recording and music video for “Strange Fruit,” the historic song originally recorded by Billie Holiday ...

Billie Holiday died penniless with just 70 cents in her bank account after years of persecution by the Federal Bureau of ...

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 ...

Jill Scott gave a chilling performance of “Strange Fruit,” the iconic protest song made popular by Bille Holiday, on A&E’s Shining a Light concert special this past weekend. Scott joined the likes of ...

(The Conversation) — Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at Metropolitan Hospital in New York. The 44-year-old singer arrived after being turned away from a nearby charity ...

Today, Holiday is revered as one of the most influential musical artists of all time. Time magazine named her 1939 recording of “Strange Fruit” the song of the 20th century. “In this sad, shadowy song ...