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"Strange Fruit". Documentary. Independent Lens. PBS. March 31, 2022 [2003]. "Strange Fruit" Archived March 2, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Shmoop, analysis of lyrics, historical and literary allusions - student & teaching guide "Strange Fruit" at MusicBrainz (information and list of recordings) BBC Radio 4 - Soul Music, Series 17, Strange Fruit
The 1920s and 30s also saw a marked rise in the number of songs which protested against racial discrimination, such as Fats Waller's "(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue" in 1929, and the anti-lynching song "Strange Fruit" by Lewis Allan and performed and recorded by Billie Holiday, which contains the lyrics "Southern trees bear strange ...
The Cambridge, Massachusetts restaurant "The Friendly Toast" included a drink called Strange Fruit on a menu of cocktails named after banned books. In 2015 this generated controversy, as a patron took the name as a reference to the song of the same name and found it inappropriate. The drink was later removed from the menu.
Get to know the story behind Billie Holiday's controversial "Strange Fruit," now the subject of Hulu biopic "The United States vs. Billie Holiday."
Today, “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday, “A Change is Gonna Come,” Sam Cooke and “What’s Going On,” Marvin Gaye remain relevant to Black America.
Meeropol wrote the anti-lynching poem "Strange Fruit" (1937), first published as "Bitter Fruit" in a teacher union publication. He later set it to music. The song was recorded and performed by Billie Holiday and Nina Simone. [7] Holiday notes in the book Lady Sings the Blues that she co-wrote the music to the song with Meeropol and Sonny White.
Commissioned in 1975 by Thomas Nelson Publishers, this version of the Bible was created by 130 Bible scholars, church leaders and lay Christians who worked for seven years to produce a new, modern ...
David Charles Ammon Hillman is an American classicist, known for his re-interpreting of Christianity.He was a professor at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, before his firing after translating a production of Medea that the school's faculty found unsettling.