The first few lines are as follows: "Southern trees bear a strange fruit. / Blood on the leaves and blood at the root. / Black bodies swingin’ in the Southern breeze. / Strange fruit hangin ...
Villagers were spooked by an alien-faced jackfruit found hanging from a tree in Thailand. Footage shows the strange fruit ...
So Time magazine wrote in 1999 when they voted "Strange Fruit" the Song of the Century ... people whose lives ended inhumanely hung from a tree, were all too commonplace in the Deep South of ...
"It still amazes me how twelve lines can change the world," says Joel Katz, the director of Strange Fruit, a documentary about the thirties anti-lynching protest song. Written by Abel Meeropol ...