The world that shaped her may have ebbed to a soft faraway glow, but Billie still feels contemporary ... various approaches to get a cleaner fix on Holiday. Donald Clarke’s doorstop Wishing on the ...

Billie Holiday's recording of the anti-lynching song "Strange Fruit" has stirred and haunted generations of listeners. A new article in the Journal of African American History, titled ...

Today she considers Billie Holiday ... love triangle between Holiday, Bishop and Crane, through a recounting of that incredible night at MoMA. This essay series, Full Moon on Progress Street ...

Describing the venue as "an incredible place" that is "nurturing a new generation of Black playwrights, performers,” President Joe Biden awarded Bed-Stuy’s Billie Holiday Theatre with the ...