Behind ‘Strange Fruit,’ Billie Holiday’s Anti-Lynching Anthem

It helped make Holiday a star, but it was written by Abel Meeropol, a teacher in the Bronx. An Oscar nomination and a year of protests against racism have kept it in the conversation.

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