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How the Government Targeted “Strange Fruit” Singer Billie Holiday with Drug Arrests. The Federal Bureau of Narcotics relentlessly pursued singer Billie Holiday in a chase largely fueled...
The drama, which premiered Friday on Hulu, is based on Holiday’s years-long battle with federal drug agents obsessed with both her heroin addiction and her star-making rendition of the...
Billie Holiday performing at the Storyville club, Boston, on October 29, 1955. Photo by Mel Levine. By the 1950s, Holiday's drug use, drinking, and relationships with abusive men caused her health to deteriorate. She appeared on the ABC reality series The Comeback Story to discuss attempts to overcome her poor choices.
For him, Billie Holiday was an ideal symptom of the drug problem—and an irresistible target for his crusade. She was a woman. She was black. As a child, she scrubbed floors in a brothel. She...
Unfortunately, Holiday's drug use caused her a great professional setback that same year. She was arrested and convicted for narcotics possession in 1947.
He pledged to eradicate all drugs, everywhere—and within thirty years, he succeeded in turning this crumbling department with these disheartened men into the headquarters for a global war that...
Billie Holiday (1915-1959), one of the greatest jazz vocalists of all time, grew up amid poverty, prostitution and neglect. Not surprisingly, she became addicted to illegal drugs and...
