‘STRANGE FRUIT’ BY BILLIE HOLIDAY | Legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday adapted “Strange Fruit” from a poem written by Jewish-American teacher Abel Meeropol. The song was a soulful indictment of the ...

Most know of the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg case, but few know the story of their youngest child, Robert, orphaned at six following his parents' execution for espionage and adopted by Abel Meeropol ...

Abel Meeropol was an English teacher in New York City in the 1930s who, purportedly upon seeing a photograph of two black men lynched in Indiana, wrote a poem about it called “Strange Fruit.” He set ...

In March 1939, a then-23-year-old Billie Holiday closed out her set at New York's Cafe Society with a song she hadn't performed before: "Strange Fruit." Written by Jewish schoolteacher Abel Meeropol, ...

"Strange Fruit" can feel like a period piece, more a memorial than a protest song. Rare are the performers who have invested it with new meaning,... The story behind the song "Strange Fruit" is ...

Billie Holiday’s recording of the anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit” has stirred and haunted generations of listeners. A new article from the Journal of African American History, titled “Professional ...

Billie Holiday's 'Strange Fruit' lyrics were controversial to some and powerful to others. The song was Holiday's way of protesting the lynching of Black people during the Jim Crow era, and it angered ...

The story behind the song "Strange Fruit" is well-known. Shocked by a postcard bearing a photograph of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abraham Smith in Marion, Ind., Bronx schoolteacher Abel Meeropol ...