Harlem House Where Billie Holiday Lived Is Damaged in Fire
A four-alarm fire on Wednesday evening severely damaged a building in Harlem where the jazz legend Billie Holiday once lived.
26 Actors Who Looked So Much Like The Real-Life People They Played, It's Almost Scary
With so many movies "based on a true story," it's pretty cool to see actors transform into the real-life people they're ...
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Strange fruit: How Billie Holiday's performance of the anti-lynching song politicized Black consciousness
Billie Holiday's recording of the anti-lynching song ... Nevertheless, lynching remained a real issue, polarizing U.S. citizens down racial and political lines. A Jewish teacher named Abel ...
Fire tears through empty Harlem building where Billie Holiday once lived, four firefighters hurt
Huge flames could be seen blasting through the roof of the five-story building on W. 139th St. near Malcolm X Blvd. starting 9 p.m. Wednesday.
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Decades After Billie Holiday's Death, 'Strange Fruit' Is Still a Searing Testament to Injustice – and of Faithful Solidarity With Suffering
Decades After Billie Holiday's Death, 'Strange Fruit' Is Still ... She was "singing this song as though this was for real, as though she had just witnessed a lynching," Jarrett said of "Strange ...
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Andra Day says she once had a sex and porn addiction, and that shaped her approach to 'The United States vs. Billie Holiday'
Billie Holiday." Day, who portrayed the iconic singer Billie Holiday in the movie, said she didn't want to play a hypersexualized version of Holiday, who has routinely been described as a "sex ...
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Brooklyn Poet to Host Billie Holiday Theatre’s ‘Billie & Beyond’ Music Series
Brooklyn poet Shanelle Gabriel will host a star-studded evening featuring R&B singer Lydia Caesar. The Billie Holiday Theatre ...