Today's Strange Fruit Mention of the Day via Harlem World Magazine tells the origin story of the protest song, "Strange Fruit." It begins with Abel Meeropol's penning of the original poem, "Bitter Fruit," which he wrote as an expression of his horror about the lynchings of Black Americans during that era. Later on in the late 1930s, Billie Holiday was introduced to the song and began to perform it in nightclubs, eventually recording it and making it one of the most iconic American protest songs ever written.
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