Get to know the story behind Billie Holiday's controversial "Strange Fruit," now the subject of Hulu biopic "The United States vs. Billie Holiday."

"When our people watch it, I hope they get tingles inside, because it's Black!"View Entire Post ›

With his new film, The United States vs. Billie Holiday, Lee Daniels wants to set the record straight on the life and legacy of Billie Holiday, played by Andra Day.  Read more...More about Movies, Mashable Video, Golden Globes, Lee Daniels, and Strange Fruit

The new film “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” aims to change the public’s perception of the jazz singer and shine a light on her role as a leader in the push for Black civil rights.

Hulu’s new biopic The United States vs. Billie Holiday tracks the famous Black singer as a vengeful government agent tries to take her down over her anti-lynching anthem “Strange Fruit.” Andra Day gives a stunning performance as Holiday, but the film doesn’t …

Director Lee Daniels takes a lazy approach to psychological profiling – a life reduced to vignettes of trauma

The director of Precious tells Adam White about his new Billie Holiday film, cringing at his own movies, and why he thinks there would have been no Black Panther without his hit TV soap

Lee Daniels didn’t want to touch the story of Billie Holiday

Musicians, artists, and fans are racing to save the nation's jazz history as historic clubs face closure and master tapes of crucial recordings by African American artists sit collecting dust.Why it matters: The pandemic has wrecked an already vulnerable jazz…

Lee Daniels joins The ReidOut to talk about his latest film ‘The United States vs Billie Holiday,’ which looks at Holiday’s civil rights activism: “I had to tell the story, there was no way I could not tell the story.”

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"Lady Day" turned a lifetime of pain into immortal lyrics, with a voice that still haunts decades after her death. A new film, "The United States vs. Billie Holiday," chronicles the government's persecution of the jazz singer.

Billie Holiday turned a lifetime of pain into immortal lyrics, with a voice that still haunts decades after her death. Her life is now the subject of a new film, "The United States vs. Billie Holiday," about the government's persecution of the jazz singer. Co…

In this preview of an interview to be broadcast on “CBS Sunday Morning” January 31, actress Andra Day talks with correspondent Tracy Smith about her wariness in portraying the famed jazz singer in the new Hulu film, "The United States vs. Billie Holiday."

#2ForJune Day 1 1961 - Good Morning Heartache - Ella Fitzgerald (the Billie Holiday version is also great) 2001 - After I Made Love to You - Bonnie Prince Billy (the magnificent Will Oldham) https://t.co/I5uRSgmMt1 https://t.co/OkBlvcC4O7

RT @mk_vs04: Good morning heartache Sit down Stop haunting me now Can't shake you nohow Just leave me alone I've got those Monday blues Str…

RT @JazzSketches: Billie Holiday, Paris, 1958 #Jazz #JazzSketches #BillieHoliday https://t.co/5TgMu8Jw6N

find the billie holiday in the white noise

RT @PietroDellova: Billie Holiday

I Wished on the Moon by Billie Holiday

The worst electroswing song: OB3one's Body Swinging. It is an upbeat remix of Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit. Why the fuck would anyone make this. How, how did they sample "bodies swinging" without listening to the fucking song.

RT @leonelloruberto: The Duke and Lady Day (Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday) #Jazz https://t.co/mXTwYd0AIT

RT @leonelloruberto: The Duke and Lady Day (Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday) #Jazz https://t.co/mXTwYd0AIT

RT @thejazzestate: Remembering the great Billie Holiday who was born on this day in 1915. Here, she is performing “Now or Never” with the…

Billie was so me when he wrote Holiday

Now playing on https://t.co/W9cCONFKyI's The Stroll: "But Not For Me" by Billie Holiday from 'All Or Nothing At All' https://t.co/oIXwkRK62Z

Now Playing, Billie Holiday — Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone from Compact Jazz: Billie Holiday #music #Jazz

RT @AfricanArchives: On this day in 1939, Billie Holiday recorded the first great protest song of the Civil Rights Movement, 'Strange Fruit…

RT @AfricanArchives: Georgette’s Tea Room in overtown was one of the place for the affluent black community to meet like Billie Holiday and…

RT @widogastsweb: i love anachronistic high fantasy. i think dnd characters who ride in wagons and sleep in taverns without indoor plumbing…

Darn That Dream (1/7/57) by Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday - Billie Holiday - God Bless The Child

Spotify made me a playlist w/ Judy Garland, Billie Holiday and Alicia Keys..uhmm yeess

if jonathan or nancy get vecna’d, the song would be “you better go now” by billie holiday bc that was the song that played when they were repeating what murray had said to them <3

RT @OwlsAsylum: On this day in Black WOMEN's history, May 10, 1992 ::: Billie Holiday protege, Jazz legend, over 1 million singles sold, Sy…

old 50s billie holiday music was the highlight