6.9K views · 243 reactions | NBK Tv: Billie Holiday - "Strange Fruit" “Strange Fruit” is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939. Written by a white, Jewish high school teacher from the Bronx and a member of the Communist Party, Abel Meeropol wrote it as a protest poem, exposing American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans. | NBK Tv | Facebook

Billie Holiday – Strange Fruit

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The extraordinary power of Billie Holiday’s ‘Strange Fruit’, evoking the horror of racial lynching

Behind the Song: Billie Holiday, "Strange Fruit," by Abel Meeropol

Seamus Heaney – Strange Fruit