This is Billie Holiday. Aside from being an amazing singer did you know in March 1939 at 23 years old she sang a cover of the song “Strange Fruit” to an unenthused crowd at West 4th’s Cafe Society? She became determined to sing that song for the next 20 years of her career until her life came to an early end at age 44. While on her hospital bed suffering from heart and lung problems and cirrhosis of the liver from years of drug and alcohol abuse, a Federal Bureau of Narcotics commissioner Harry Anslinger had his men handcuff her to her bed. While she showed signs of recovery his men denied doctors of treating her. She died within days. No good deed goes unpunished. Respect to her legacy and using your gift to speak the truth about what was happening to black bodies in America so frequently.