"In this sad, shadowy song about lynching in the South, history's greatest jazz singer comes to terms with history itself". So Time magazine wrote in 1999 when they voted "Strange Fruit" the Song ...

"When [Meeropol] showed me that poem," Holiday said of "Strange Fruit," "I dug it right off" because it " seemed to spell out all the things that had killed Pop." Her father, jazz guitarist ...