Billie Holiday vs The US Government - Extra History
Added 2022-06-10 17:31:00 +0000 UTCJazz singer Billie Holiday vs the US Government?! Her song Strange Fruit written by Abel Meeropol about the treatment of African Americans in the community is what started the whole altercation. Especially when Harry Anslinger, the Head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics got involved, he set out to ensnare the Idol any way he could.
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There's a good number of those, actually. The Carlisle Boarding School a couple weeks ago... The Redlining episode... Black Medical Exploitation... Interstate displacement... And that's just some of the ones where racism was the core focus.
Ramien
2022-06-19 08:08:20 +0000 UTCThre can't be many EH episodes where you want to journey back in time and punch the racist in the nose...
Martin Verran
2022-06-17 15:10:19 +0000 UTCI wonder if I have that on an album in my collection of old vinyls...
zermit
2022-06-11 13:44:16 +0000 UTCShe died on my birthday. Cool fun fact
Peanut Tree5000
2022-06-10 17:40:32 +0000 UTCStrange Fruit is, without a doubt, one of the most powerful songs I've ever heard.
Katie Malone
2022-06-10 17:32:45 +0000 UTC
