Billie, Lester, Fats and Duke

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Billie, Lester fats and Duke by artist Frederick J. Brown

The Spike Lee “Creative Sources” Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum

Eastern Parkway,

Brooklyn, New York

Strange Fruit

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Billie Holiday singing a song about lynching, written in 1936 by Abel Meeropool. Meeropool’s family adopted the two sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Michael and Robert, after their parents were executed. In 1990, Robert Meeropol went on to found the Rosenberg Fund for Children, a public foundation which provides support for children in the U.S. whose parents are targeted, progressive activists.

Thanks to YouTuber MonsieurBaudelaire