`Southern trees bear a strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood for the root, Black body swinging in the Southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. Pastoral scene of the gall… ...

Billie Holiday recorded her iconic version of Strange Fruit on 20 April 1939. Eighty years on, Aida Amoako explores how a poem about lynching became a timeless call to action.

A concise but graphic evocation of a Southern lynching, “Strange Fruit” was one of America’s earliest and most shocking protest songs, drawing attention to the thousands of acts of racist ...

Billie Holiday's rendition of "Strange Fruit" remains a testament to injustice decades after the singer's death.

"Strange Fruit" can feel like a period piece, more a memorial than a protest song. Rare are the performers who have invested it with new meaning, fraught as it is with the legacy of America's past.

Justin Bieber's "Peaches" is the fourth song with the name of a fruit in its title to top the Billboard Hot 100. It's one of 22 such songs to crack the top 10.

Fruit has clearly been inspirational to musicians over the years: 19 songs that have hit the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 have had fruit names in their titles. But which is your favorite?

Holiday’s recording of “Strange Fruit” was among 50 recordings to be added in its first year. The Library noted: “This searing song is arguably Billie Holiday’s most influential recording.

That seems to be the lesson of "Strange Fruit Public Relations," an Austin, Texas-based PR firm that has committed to rebranding after being informed—or reminded—that it takes its name from a ...

The latest Fruit Bats’ song (the title track off their upcoming seventh LP) sees Johnson hit a peak of radiant retro poppiness.

Strange Fruit explores the history and legacy of the powerful song portraying the harrowing lynching of a black man in the American South.

One of Billie Holiday's most iconic songs is "Strange Fruit," a haunting protest against the inhumanity of racism. Many people know that the man who wrote the song was inspired by a photograph of ...