Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swingin’ in the Southern breeze Strange fruit hangin’ from the poplar trees Those are the words immortalized by Billie Holiday when she sang “Strange Fruit” for the first time in 1939. It became a protest song that captured […]
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