Tuesday, April 7, 2015

2015-04-08 Billie Holiday's 100's anniversary

2015-04-08 Billie Holiday's 100's anniversary
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100th anniversary. Legendary jazz singer and songwriter Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was born ‪#‎tdih‬ 1915. In the article, “Strange Convergence,” (http://bit.ly/1GkFAIW) Robert Meeropol describes the parallels in Holiday's life to the life of Ethel Rosenberg, who also would have turned 100 in 2015. As Meeropol writes, “You might conclude that Billie and Ethel had similar talents and defied similar enemies.” Read here: http://bit.ly/1GkFAIW Also, learn more about Holiday from the Democracy Now!broadcast, "The Hunting of Billie Holiday & the Roots of the U.S. War on Drugs,"http://bit.ly/1Pgy58F
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