Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at Metropolitan Hospital in New York. The 44-year-old singer arrived after being turned away from a nearby charity hospital on evidence of ...

Singer Billie Holiday records her penultimate album, Lady in Satin, at the Columbia Records studio in December 1957 in New York City. [Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images] Abel Meeropol, a New ...

In 1959, during what would be the final months of her life, Billie Holiday was unwell. The singer—who had honed her art in the brothels of Baltimore, fronted orchestras led by Count Basie and Artie ...

Billie Holiday rose to prominence in 1939 headlining at Manhattan’s Café Society, America’s first integrated nightclub. The price of that fame was to be stalked by law enforcement and the media.

The actress said Billie Holiday "reinvigorated the civil rights movement." Andra Day opened up on playing renowned jazz singer Billie Holiday in "The United States Vs. Billie Holiday" during episode ...

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Billie Holiday's rendition of "Strange Fruit" remains a testament to injustice decades after the singer's death. File Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress Today, Holiday is revered as one of the ...