> It’s the place where a young Black artist named Billie Holiday put on a controversial performance of “Strange Fruit” in 1959 America, I was going to say she

> It’s the place where a young Black artist named Billie Holiday put on a controversial performance of “Strange Fruit” in 1959 America, I was going to say she was dead by then, but it turns out there IS a recording from 1959, the year she died: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGY9HvChXk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGY9HvChXk I still think he probably meant 1939 when she actually was young.