Bitter Fruit

[Music Video / Short Film]

Strange Fruit might have been the first Billie Holiday song I ever heard, which started a long love affair with her voice and catalogue. Years later, I discovered Strange Fruit was initially Bitter Fruit, an anti-lynching poem written by a Jewish New York high school teacher named Abel Meeropol. The poem was written in response to visiting the South in 1937, and being witness to its horrors. 

Billie Holiday 
Abel Meeropol

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