When Billie Holiday bravely recorded “Strange Fruit,” as a protest to the lynchings that were happening across the nation, she literally put her life and career on the line. STRANGE FRUIT LYRICS Southern trees bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves Blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze Strange fruit hanging […]
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By Elsie Law
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