On Oct. 5, 1958, Billie Holiday took the stage at ... Americans embodied by tropes such as “Amos ’n’ Andy” and Aunt Jemima. Holiday was doing much more than making music, says Scherrie ...

What portrait of her do you think did emerge from listening to these tapes especially? If one was to try and make a Billie Holiday film today, from scratch, you’d go out and you’d interview ...

August 19, 2019 • Jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater offers a playlist of Billie Holiday's greatest songs ... Victoria are the Blair House Collective. These poems honor two of the "living ...

Much the same could be said for Billie Holiday’s "God Bless the Child ... which is remarkable, given that these lyrics have a sarcastic side to them, though you almost wouldn’t know ...

Being tasked with re-creating Billie Holiday’s iconic looks in “The ... because of her [needle] track marks and to hide them. These elements that became style were really out of tragedy.

“[Bille Holiday] was such an avant-garde [figure], so it was trying to pull things that seemed new. There are so many pictures of her, it’s wild. She has so many looks within all these ...

American jazz singer Billie Holiday sings at ... There may be some merit to these movies, but the music in them takes a distant second place to Holiday’s drug use, arrests, troubles with men ...

Flashback Friday: Billie Holiday Today, July 16, marks the passing of the incomparable singer Ms. Billie Holiday. Few vocalists before or since have been able to spin such emotional depth through ...

On Dec. 15, 2016, The Hard Times published an article positing that U.S. President Donald Trump had demanded that singer Billie Holiday posthumously ... I ask these loser clerks where I can ...

Jazz singer Billie Holiday vs the US Government?! Her song Strange Fruit written by Abel Meeropol about the treatment of African Americans in the community is what started the whole altercation.

We all know and love Billie Holiday for a mark on music that’s still evident today, but there’s something to be said about the singer’s timeless take on style. Known for bold accessories and ...