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How a jazz singer became a symbol of resistance

Billie Holiday was not targeted because she was reckless—she was targeted because she refused to be silent. Her performance of Strange Fruit turned music into protest, and authorities treated it like ...
“Black and Jewish America” is hosted, produced and written by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. — known for his PBS television show “Finding Your Roots” as well as being a professor, historian and literary ...
His concert at Manchester’s Co-op Arena in May last year featured a lengthy onstage broadside against Donald Trump, and his long history of political activism and recording songs that speak truth to ...
Aussie comedian Mark Mitchell is beloved for his character Con the Fruiterer, a Greek fruit shop owner with iconic mannerisms ...