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Style With Soul: How the World's Most Iconic Black Women Singers Expressed Themselves Through Fashion


Style With Soul: How the World’s Most Iconic Black Women Singers Expressed Themselves Through Fashion
Vogue
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Tavia Nyong’o
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Billie Holiday performing at the Club Downbeat in New York City, February 1947.
As a child, one book in our Afrocentric family library cast a particular magnetism upon me. It was
A Zora Neale Hurston Reader, edited by Alice Walker; the 1979 Feminist Press edition with the wraparound cover. On the front stood Hurston, rocking a severe dark coat, a pink beret upon which a floating feather was mysteriously pinned, and a broad smile underneath the first half of the title, ....

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What really happened when the FBI prosecuted Billie Holiday


What really happened when the FBI prosecuted Billie Holiday
Randall Roberts
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Billie Holiday in 1958. (AP)
When the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter Suzan-Lori Parks was little and her parents put on Billie Holiday records, they often offered a vague editorial as accompaniment.
“They would say things like, ‘They got to her’ but without any specifics,’” says Parks during a conversation about her script for “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” the new Lee Daniels-directed movie. “My dad was in the military, and as parents were very slow to criticize the government.”
The drama, which premiered Friday on Hulu, is based on Holiday’s years-long battle with federal drug agents obsessed with both her heroin addiction and her star-making rendition of the harrowing ballad “Strange Fruit.” ....

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Review: Andra Day burns hot and cool as jazz great in 'The United States vs. Billie Holiday'


Review: Andra Day burns hot and cool as jazz great in The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Kevin Crust
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Andra Day in the movie The United States vs. Billie Holiday. (Takashi Seida / Hulu)
Starting with its title, there is no shortage of conflict in “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” director Lee Daniels’ dispiriting portrayal of the federal government’s targeted pursuit of the great jazz singer from 1947 until her death in 1959 at the age of 44.
Referring to the notorious 1947 court case that landed her in prison for a year on a narcotics possession charge at the height of her career, Holiday reportedly said, It was called The United States of America versus Billie Holiday, and that s just the way it felt. ....

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