Andra Day Performs Strange Fruit in The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Actress and musician Andra Day performs
Billie Holiday's song "Strange Fruit" in
The United States vs. Billie
Holiday. The powerful anti-lynching
song, which began as a poem by Abel
Meeropol, resulted in Holiday becoming a
target of the FBI and Federal Bureau of
Narcotics. Andra Day depicts this part of
Holiday's life in the 2021 movie directed
by Lee Daniels (
The
Butler).
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