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How Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” Shocked Listeners With Its Brutal Confrontation of Racism

How Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” Shocked Listeners With Its Brutal Confrontation of Racism

March 5, 2022March 5, 2022

BY KENNETH PARTRIDGE OCTOBER 6, 2021 According to recent findings by the Equal Justice Initiative, nearly 4000 Black individuals were lynched by white Southerners in the United States between 1877 and 1950. These…

The Story Of The 1919 Elaine Race Massacre That You Didn’t Learn In School

The Story Of The 1919 Elaine Race Massacre That You Didn’t Learn In School

March 2, 2022March 2, 2022

By Genevieve Carlton | Checked By Jaclyn AnglisPublished December 30, 2021 In 1919, Black sharecroppers in Arkansas tried to organize for better wages — until a white mob and U.S. troops murdered hundreds of…

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