Passing Strange

The author of strange fruit was Abel Meeropol. He was an english teacher, and social activist located in New York. He grew up when lynching and racism heavily existed. The origin of his poem “Strange Fruit” came from him seeing a photograph of someone being graphically lynched. The image reminisced through his head, which eventually lead him to writing his poem. Billie Holiday was known for her beautiful voice and lyrics to her songs. After listening to the song “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday

Although “Strange Fruit” and “The Summer I was Sixteen” have extremely different tones and depict images that seem nothing alike, they both have an underlying theme of discrimination and inequality. Throughout history we have seen the bizarre way humans treat other other humans. Acts from a group of humans towards another can range from violent to more mild, yet still harmful acts. Usually these acts are based on differences in outward appearance, from the color of a person's skin to the gender of

to start her career as a singer; when most black women her age were forced into a dancing career, due to the white-male dominated entertainment industry. Holiday sang jazz songs that varied from "My Man," a song about a man who beats her, to "Strange Fruit," a haunting protest song about lynching in the American South.  Tony Bennett once stated about Holiday, "She didn't sing anything unless she had lived it" (Foley 1). So black fans claimed her as their voice to willing white ears, "not only

of music that I have not explored than those which I have. And as I explore culture and cross-cultural linkages in our music, I realize how much one generation’s music ‘speaks’ to the next. Currently, the song I am intrigued by is “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday. This song is very moving. When Billie Holiday sings, you MUST listen. However, this song, unlike most of her other music, is not about love.

Today when I woke up I had wish last night was a dream, however when I asked mother it was not. I hade so many questions I was so confused, however I had to leave for school. School was not that greater either I got into an argument with my mean teacher and left the class and went to study hall. Then I got called down the office and had a big argument with the principle about my dad and me not facing the facts about my father. I couldn’t believe that she had the nerve to say these things that was

viewing Marvel Film Doctor Strange, the graphics will have you questioning if all these things could actually be nonfictional; indeed, you may even find yourself wondering if you too might have the power of mind to enter the Astral Plane. Although the graphics of this film are incredible there are still some faults in this movie pertaining to onscreen relationship connections between certain characters, and the underdevelopment of some characters. Leading role Dr. Strange played by Benedict Cumberbatch

movie Doctor Strange is about a neurosurgeon, named Stephen Strange, who becomes an amazing and powerful hero, after he was in a car accident that brought serious injury to his hands. The movie opens with a scene of Dr. Strange performing surgeries with Dr. Christine Palmer, his friend throughout his typical work day. The importance of these first scenes is to show how important his hands are to him and the people around him. This scene is also important because it seems as though Strange has a love

lynching’s occurred in the United States. Of these people that were lynched 3,446 were black (“History of Lynchings,” 2017).Many poets and writers took those tragedy’s and decided to put their feelings into writing. “Bitter Fruit” later turned into “ Strange Fruit,” was written by a Jewish high school English teacher from the Bronx and a member of the American Communist Party. This astonishing writers name is Abel Meeropol. In 1937, Meeropol saw a photograph of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith being lynched

Within the song “Strange Fruit” the following lines in particular stand out: “Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh/ Then the sudden smell of burning flesh,” (Holiday 7-8). In these lines Holiday revels the darkness of what is happening and with doing this sends the message

would perform, what they believed to be acts of justice by hanging, or lynching, black men who were convicted of doing a crime. The Poem “Strange Fruit” is an interesting poem depicts a very horrid image of pure racism in the south and how lynchings were such a gruesome image, and was meant to be a “protest against the inhumanity of racism”(Blair) . The poem “Strange Fruit” was published in 1937 by Abel Meeropol after he viewed an image of a lynching that occurred in the south. Meeropol was “‘haunted’”