Strange Fruit
Summary:
Made famous by singer Billie Holiday in an unforgettable 1939 recording, the haunting anti-lynching anthem "Strange Fruit" was not, as many believe, written by an African-American. Rather, it grew out of poem penned by a Jewish schoolteacher from the Bronx, Abel Meeropol. Outraged by the shabby and often brutal treatment of black citizens in the Land of the Free and Home of the ... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Abel Meerpol
Billie Holiday
Amiri Baraka
Abbey Lincoln
Farah Jasmine Griffin
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Review:
If half the battle of making a good documentary is in the subject matter, Strange Fruit is halfway home before it rolls a second of footage. The song "Strange Fruit," made famous by Billie Holiday in the 1950s, was written by Bronx high school teacher Abel Meeropol in 1937 as a poem about the lynching of a black man in the South. Sin... Continue >>
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