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Strange Fruit

2002, Movie, NR, 57 mins

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"Southern trees bear a strange fruit," begins the protest song made famous by Billie Holiday and recorded by artists as various as Ella Fitzgerald and Tori Amos. The song fused dark lyricism and social outrage over the lynching of black men into a seductive jazz ballad, but, as this enlightening documentary from Joel Katz shows, the song was actually written by a white man: Abel Meeropol, a New York City schoolteacher of Russian Jewish descent. Read the complete review for Strange Fruit

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Year: 2002
Rated NR
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Cast
 Abbey Lincoln
Milt Gabler
Farah Jasmine Griffin
Dr. C.T. Vivian
Michael Denning
Amina Baraka

 

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