by Ron Porter Billie Holiday, one of our country’s most renown singers, recorded the controversial song “Strange Fruit” in 1939 when she was just twenty-five years old. The haunting first two verses of the tune are: Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swingin’ in … Continued

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