Strange Fruit by Abel Meeropol

Listening to this song, sung by such an amazing singer and strong black woman, Billy Holiday gives it a deeper meaning...a sadness that needs to be recognized.  Her voice echoed the pain and sadness that still hung within their hearts & still rings true to this day.  This poem sung by a black American gave it the voice it need to ring out across the land...to all people...how America was allowing racial injustice to exist.  The impact of a photograph gave life to Meeropol's reaction towards lynching.  Holiday gave it a soul, life, a way to hear their pain...to remember.  If one was to read the poem, I am sure that I would not have been able to understand what it was to be a black American during that time...but listening to it....the song lives in my mind, my heart...to reflect upon, to remember, to make sure that history is not forgotten and to never have it repeat...for the world to work towards civil rights always, forever.