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In 1939, a 24-year-old Billie Holiday stood under a spotlight singing a song like none she’d sung before. The piece, "Strange Fruit," told the graphic tale of Southern lynchings. It became a protest anthem in the 1940s and again during the 1960s Civil Rights movement led by Martin Luther King. The song has also inspired an evening of music by singer-songwriter Eisa Davis, who starred in the musical "Passing Strange" and also happens to be the niece of '60s activist Angela Davis. She joins us live in our studio.
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