The melody hung in the air like the bodies it mourned. When Billie Holiday first sang "Strange Fruit" at Café Society in 1939, white patrons filed out "one party after another," fleeing from the mirror she held up to their complicity.
The melody hung in the air like the bodies it mourned. When Billie Holiday first sang "Strange Fruit" at Café Society in 1939, white patrons filed out "one party after another," fleeing from the mirror she held up to their complicity.
