Billie Holiday records her penultimate album, 'Lady in Satin,' in New York in 1957. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images On July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at Metropolitan Hospital in New York.

Singer Billie Holiday was tormented by anti-drug squad In the 1940s and ’50s, Harry Anslinger, head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Narcotics, set his sights on jazz vocalist Billie Holiday.

Billie Holiday," now streaming on Hulu, insists it was something more nefarious: a relentless campaign to destroy Holiday spearheaded by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI under the direction of the bigoted ...

(THE CONVERSATION) On July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at Metropolitan Hospital in New York. The 44-year-old singer arrived after being turned away from a nearby charity hospital on evidence of ...