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Join The Cast Of Hulu s The United States vs Billie Holiday For A Candid Conversation Series
Tune in to ESSENCE Studios this week as the film s stars talk Billie Holiday s impact, Andra Day s breakout performance, Black men & masculinity and more.
The groundbreaking performances from the cast of Hulu’s
The United States vs Billie Holiday has everyone talking and engaging in much-needed conversation around several of the film’s themes as explored through the lens of Billie Holiday’s compelling life story.
Throughout the month of March, ESSENCE Studios will premiere an exclusive interview series featuring the film’s stars
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Comedy Festival Lineup Announced for SXSW Online 2021
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When traditional comedy clubs fell dormant last year, it drove what little stand-up remained to less than ideal environments and reminded us how just a handful of clubs across the country supports the entire community from open mic-er to famous headliner.
SXSW Comedy invited some of the most lauded comedy venues from around the country to present live shows from their home stages, most for the first time in nearly a year. Each club curated an impressive lineup of regulars, excited to be back on a real stage for a live audience and the result is a fascinating comedy time capsule.
Andra Day in “The United States vs.Billie Holiday.” (Takashi Seida/Hulu)
As the telling of the story goes in the sometimes overwrought but searing and memorably impactful “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” the government didn’t really care about the troubled singer with the voice of an angel shooting heroin as she toured the country.
The drug abuse – that was simply the means of getting to Holiday. That was the rationale for devoting an inordinate amount of time and manpower to harassing her, infiltrating her inner circle, arresting her, sending her off to prison when a rehabilitation facility would have been more beneficial, attempting to plant evidence on her, hounding her every move literally to the day she died. What the feds really wanted to do was get her to stop singing that damn song: the haunting and scathing mood piece “Strange Fruit,” which told the story of the obscene epidemic of lynchings in the South and served as a wake-up call every time Holida