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 ...

In 1959, during what would be the final months of her life, Billie Holiday was unwell. The singer—who had honed her art in the brothels of Baltimore, fronted orchestras led by Count Basie and ...

Synthia L. Hardy has clearly spent many years studying and performing onstage as Billie Holiday. But she doesn’t glamorize the famous jazz singer in her well-written play with music “Billie!

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 ...