With a formidable voice and a heroin addiction to match, Billie Holiday was the textbook example of a beautiful mess. Unfortunately, director Lee Daniels’ eagerly awaited biopic on the jazz ...

But “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” isn’t the only biographical effort to suggest the government targeted her for what became a civil rights anthem.

NPR Music is paying tribute to eight women who stand as pillars of American music. Throughline, NPR's history podcast, takes a look at Billie Holiday's life and influence.

A baby photo. Taped interviews with childhood friends. Handwritten set lists on crumpled paper. With a newly acquired collection of Billie Holiday biographical materials, Johns Hopkins University ...

Billie Holiday Four Classic Albums Avid Records 2011 Back in the 1950s, when the American people were buying television sets and driving gas guzzlers on brand new superhighways under the threat of ...

HOLIDAY: (Singing) Treat me right, baby, and I'll stay home every day. WILLIAMS: This poem is called "Treble," for Billie Holiday. (Reading) This red in the bone.

Andra Day remembers being 11 years old and hearing Billie Holiday’s music ... Warhol’s Muses, Laurence Leamer chronicles the transformation of “Baby Jane” from a Park Avenue princess to ...

Johns Hopkins University historians are piecing together details about Billie Holiday's early life in Baltimore.Raynetta Wiggins-Jackson, an Africana archives curatorial fellow at Hopkins, is ...