Billie Holiday records her penultimate album, 'Lady in Satin,' in New York in 1957. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Today, Holiday is revered as one of the most influential musical artists of all ...

(The Root) — Kanye’s sixth studio album, Yeezus, was released on Tuesday, but the Internet has been buzzing about it since it leaked last week. One song in particular, “Blood on the Leaves,” made a ...

Rebecca Ferguson, the runner up on the UK’s “X Factor,” says she would perform at President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony -- under one condition. On Twitter, Ferguson released a statement ...

Yes, it has a strange name. No, you most likely haven’t heard of it before. And yes, it is definitely a fruit you need to know. It’s Gac fruit (Momordica cochinchinensis), a strange and beautiful red ...

Sometimes even PR firms need to hire PR consultants. That seems to be the lesson of "Strange Fruit Public Relations," an Austin, Texas-based PR firm that has committed to rebranding after being ...

One of Billie Holiday's most iconic songs is "Strange Fruit," a haunting protest against the inhumanity of racism. Many people know that the man who wrote the song was inspired by a photograph of a ...

Earlier this year, the owners of a PR firm discovered, via a social-media blowback, that calling a company “Strange Fruit PR” is a seriously bad idea, since the poem and Billie Holiday song to which ...

Billie Holiday recorded her iconic version of Strange Fruit on 20 April 1939. Eighty years on – in the first of our Songs that Made History series – Aida Amoako explores how a poem about lynching ...

Dan Oko, a Houston-based freelance writer, specializes in outdoor recreation, environmental affairs and active travel. I often write consumer-friendly stuff, and I'd been expecting the package. Until ...