A four-alarm fire on Wednesday evening severely damaged a building in Harlem where the jazz legend Billie Holiday once lived.

The spellbinding, sometimes brutally evocative lyrics of "Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday, describes lynchings in the American South.

On Oct. 5, 1958, Billie Holiday took the stage at the inaugural Monterey Jazz Festival. Then America’s preeminent jazz singer ...

Baltimore hardcore crew Jivebomb will unleash their debut album, Ethereal, next month, and they’ve shared another brutal ...

With so many movies "based on a true story," it's pretty cool to see actors transform into the real-life people they're playing onscreen. Oftentimes, the resemblance can be so uncanny that audiences ...

National Museum of African American History and Culture Photograph of Billie Holiday National Museum of African American History and Culture Photograph of Billie Holiday National Museum of African ...

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.

Jazz singer Billie Holiday vs the US Government?! Her song Strange Fruit written by Abel Meeropol about the treatment of African Americans in the community is what started the whole altercation.

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 ...

You can check out the new Jivebomb joint by giving the live footage-loaded video, directed by Noah Haycock, a peep up above. While band members are seen slugging down what seems to be a can of beer ...

Brooklyn poet Shanelle Gabriel will host a star-studded evening featuring R&B singer Lydia Caesar. The Billie Holiday Theatre ...