(The Conversation) — Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie ... “Black body swinging in the Southern breeze / Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.” Holiday’s rendition ...

Singer Billie Holiday records ... shocked and haunted him: “Black body swinging in the Southern breeze / Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.” Holiday’s rendition of Meeropol ...

Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday ... "Black body swinging in the Southern breeze / Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees." Holiday's rendition of Meeropol's song ...

On Oct. 5, 1958, Billie Holiday took the stage at the inaugural Monterey Jazz Festival. Then America’s preeminent jazz singer, she closed the event with an effortlessly sophisticated 11-song set ...

Billie Holiday is widely considered jazz’s pre-eminent singer. Frank Sinatra once said that “with few exceptions, every major pop singer in the U.S. during her generation has been touched in ...

In 1959, during what would be the final months of her life, Billie ... body.) But Mr. Alexander pieces together some wonderful accounts of the singer by her close friends, to depict Holiday ...

Today, Holiday ... but not his body. The message of the empty cross is resurrection and new life. According to the Christian story, Jesus was crucified, buried and rose from the dead to redeem ...