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you can say that again, billie

Billie Holiday’s haunting song “Strange Fruit” winds beneath the unsettling, satiric humor of Evie Shockley’s poem “you can say that again, billie.” Shockley, jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, historian Robin D.G. Kelley, actor LisaGay Hamilton, novelist Beverly Lowry, and radio host Nick Spitzer join Elisa New to discuss the history of racism, violence, and artistic tradition in the American south.

English
  • Originally Aired February 11, 2022
  • Runtime 25 minutes
  • Network PBS
  • Created February 15, 2022 by
    Matang Aguila
  • Modified February 15, 2022 by
    Matang Aguila