Strange Fruit – Voices of a Lynching
Radio Diaries | Aug 25, 2014
Strange Fruit: An eerie photograph, a famous song, and the man who lived to tell the story.
The images coming out of Ferguson, MO this summer have reminded us of another upsetting image of race in America. It’s a photograph that was taken just a few hours from Ferguson, but eight decades ago…and it inspired the Billie Holiday song, Strange Fruit.
Listen to our story (and be advised that it is disturbing.)
