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Friday, February 26, 2021

Billie Holiday: How the Government Targeted the "Strange Fruit" Singer with Drug Arrests

In 1939, Billie Holiday rode the service elevator in a midtown Manhattan hotel on her way to sing on stage. Of course the hotel had a front door, but Holiday wasn’t allowed to use it because she was Black. Little did she know this was just the beginning of the troubles that would follow her ...

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