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?Strange Fruit? describes horrors of lynchings

By Dolores Cox Harlem, N.Y. Published Jul 3, 2009 10:12 PMJune is Black Music Month, proclaimed so by former President Jimmy Carter. In honor of Black Music Month, there was a film series showing in New York at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture based in Harlem.One of the films, ?Strange Fruit,? is the first documentary exploring the history and legacy of the famous Black singer, Billie Holiday, who popularized the song ?Strange Fruit.? The song tells a dramatic story of the U.S.?s grim past. ?Strange Fruit? is a protest song highlighting the thousands of rampant racist lynchings of African Americans in the South. It was originally performed by Holiday in the first integrated New York City nightclub, Cafe Society, in 1939.The profound lyrics are: ?Southern trees bear a strange fruit...continue to full post

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