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.

Billie Holiday Flashback Friday 260 Jpg By Essence · Updated October 29, 2020 July 17 marks the anniversary of death of the incomparable singer, Ms. Billie Holiday.

Billie Holiday’s music continues to captivate, comfort, and challenge listeners nearly a century after she first graced the ...

Billie Holiday builds herself up, then melts down “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill” imagines one of the jazz singer’s final concerts the year of her death. September 13, 2024 ...

Billie Holiday had reasons to sing the blues. Abandoned by her father and raised in Harlem by her often-unemployed mother, “we were starving,” Billie recalled. But she learned how to survive.

Essay; Billie Holiday Was a Songwriter, Too The great jazz singer drew on her troubled life to write classic songs like ‘God Bless the Child’ and ‘Lady Sings the Blues.’ ...

For her final televised performance in 1959, Billie Holiday chose to sing the iconic song Strange Fruit - a powerful anti-lynching anthem. This extraordinary performance, for the British ...