With President-Elect Donald Trump's inauguration only weeks away, several artists have been asked to perform at his inauguration, and almost every one has denied the request. Well, that stops now. One ...

Billie Holiday's 'Strange Fruit' lyrics were controversial to some and powerful to others. The song was Holiday's way of protesting the lynching of Black people during the Jim Crow era, and it angered ...

Billie Holiday's recording of the anti-lynching song "Strange Fruit" has stirred and haunted generations of listeners. A new article in the Journal of African American History, titled "Professional ...

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 ...

We look at the famous anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit,” most famously sung by Billie Holiday. The song was written in the 1930s not by Holiday–but by a lyricist writing under the pseudonym Lewis ...

Music is typically viewed as a form of entertainment that moves listeners to dance, sing, or just feel good, but sometimes it empowers. In celebration of Black History Month, Yahoo Music spotlights ...