Billie Holiday vs The US Government - US History - Extra History

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Jazz singer Billie Holiday vs the US Government?! Her song Strange Fruit written by Abel Meeropol about the treatment of African Americans in the community is what started the whole altercation. Especially when Harry Anslinger, the Head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics got involved, he set out to ensnare the Idol any way he could.
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[@pyeitme508]

😑

[@trebot9292266]

@@Wintermute909 they did use neutral language. We dont know exactly what was happening at the time. Saying "she was unable to get clean" implies there was opportunity to get clean, maybe there was maybe there was not, we dont know for sure any of this as we were not there to see it. maybe she had every chance to get clean, but as mentioned, we couldnt know.

[@mattbro6751]

Can you do the history of baseball

[@Tservator]

@@Wintermute909 please just explain how it's whitewashing no offense but I literally can't understand

[@abledbody]

"Blacks don't deserve basic human rights and we should do terrible things to them!" "Alright, here's a song outlining the terrible things you do to us." "Wait, no, don't sing that! People who listen might get the impression we do terrible things to you! Stop it, or we'll do terrible things to you!" The reasoning here is truly on another level.

[@SetzerII]

That level of mental dissonance has been around a long time. Never really left either, it just changed targets.

[@BHRamsay]

Let us not forget the government put more effort into stopping the singing of a song about lynching then it did trying to stop the actual crime

[@ntpgmr]

​@@SetzerII I'd argue it less changed, and more expanded targets.

[@Tservator]

When the agents refused to give her the treatment I got unreasonably angry for a person I just learnt about...rest in peace Billie

[@Ahrpigi]

No, no, you got very *reasonably* angry.

[@OakInch]

The methadone treatment for heroin was discovered in the 60's. It wasn't widely used until the 70's. Holiday died in the 50's. It was never a treatment for liver or kidney failure. You should be mad at the people who made this video because they lied to try and get street cred.

[@Johnrich395]

Want to know what’s worse? The same government has recently caused 700K+ deaths by denying dying people of lifesaving medicine.

[@hoenheim94]

Harry Anslinger was a rat bastard who probably destroyed more American lives than anyone else in the 20th century except maybe for Reagan

[@kathrynblakeley9823]

Your anger is valid and justified.

[@Nostripe361]

It’s always weird when you hear a person described as a “racist who freaks out other racists with how far they will take it”

[@scottanos9981]

They are more common than we know.

[@javonyounger5107]

Racism comes in many forms people who think other races are simply inferior will still look at those who want those races killed in mass or outright exterminated with horror and disgust.

[@JCdental]

@@scottanos9981 Casual racist vs Competitive racist

[@MacKennaTheGoddessofRadiation]

"HEY HEY HEY! I dont wanna kill them just...segregate them yknow"

[@finlaywallbanks7304]

Churchill moment

[@LadyDeirdre]

Anslinger wasn't just an Omega-level racist, he was a homophobe, xenophobe, demagogue, puritan, prohibitionist, and all around terrible person. Evidence meant nothing to him. Facts meant nothing him. Obedience (to him) meant everything.

[@chris7263]

Racism is highly prone to comorbidities.

[@Azraeltheangelofdeath]

Don't forget he died while suffering from morphine addiction, which at that is poetic justice for how hard he pushed for addicts to be thrown in prison yet he died a hypocrite

[@_Abjuranax_]

Anslinger was also responsible for classics such as Reefer Madness and Cocaine Fiends. Tell your children, lol.

[@kevin8712]

So... basically American Frollo?

[@Dreagostini]

@@Azraeltheangelofdeath Ironic.

[@reillycurran8508]

The fact that they denied her treatment makes her death so much worse, they basically lynched her right there in the damned hospital!

[@katklein1658]

@@OakInch they could of helped her pass more peacefully. They denied her any comfort.

[@Krushak8888]

@@OakInch methadone was introduced in America by the 30s, then researched by the 50s/60s. Even then it could have eased her pain. Thats why no one can deny you treatment.

[@AmanKumarPadhy]

It was researched in 1937, if by researched you mean 'invented'. And it was being used in medical treatments for addiction starting in the 60s, but the process ie doctors using the med as a sort of "lets try it" run began in the early 50s. So yeah, maybe the docs bak then didnt know if itd work a 100percent. But it indeed was a lifesaving treatment, which was denied to her. God bless her soul

[@OakInch]

@@AmanKumarPadhy It was literally not even researched as a Heroin addiction treatment until the 60's. This is not a debate. It is documented fact. Get your fake leftist rage fix elsewhere.

[@OakInch]

@@AmanKumarPadhy It was LITERALLY not even researched as a treatment for heroin addiction until the 60's. To pretend the FBI denied access to a treatment that was not even studied yet is ridiculous. Prior to that Methadone was just another drug people got addicted to and abused. Just stop. The facts do not support what is claimed in this video. End of story.

[@pedroportillo1585]

The one thing that truly angers me in life is knowing that the people that did ungodly things to others for standing up and doing the right thing will never be punished. Rest easy Billie Holiday.

[@diarradunlap9337]

Oh, I wouldn't say that they'll NEVER be punished. In fact, I believe that they ARE being punished, eternally. Anslinger and those agents, particularly.

[@Abshir1it1is]

@@diarradunlap9337 - Unseen punishment in an afterlife no one has or can verify is... not really helpful in settling the gross injustice. The woeful truth is: here, in the world we all share and live in, evil wins far, far too often. They killed her. In her hospital bed. They killed her and they got away with it. Because they had the power to, because these are the people who have and continue to run our society. This is absolutely infuriating.

[@Darkcamera45]

@@Abshir1it1is fr even if they are suffering in the afterlife they deserve suffering in this one aswell

[@kingofflamingos4344]

@@Abshir1it1is stop me if it sounds wack, but saying that someone is being punished in death is a wierd form of cope.. I mean of course one can wished would had happened to them, but in most cases if nothing happens to them via karma, punishment, or at lest a bit of sorrow/realization thst what they did was wrong that's it..they got away and there's nothing we could do but feel sad for the victims.

[@BlackLabelExpat]

Welcome to club human

[@pedroportillo1585]

When they couldn’t silence her, they killed her. But she was never silenced. We still remember Billie Holiday today, tomorrow, and forever.

[@mckayleepugmire9947]

Thank goodness for video and audio, the fact she got on video adds an extra/literal layer to her anti-silencing

[@veryirishdude]

I remember first hearing "Strange Fruit" in my high school US history class, really changed how I looked at media and music's cultural impact. RIP Lady Day, and props to Extra Credits for telling her story!

[@DarkElfDiva]

I first heard it in Fallout 3.

[@Johnm.499]

Almost exact same story for me

[@Johnm.499]

I'm pretty sure we was learning about the 1920s and we were supposed to listen to the song and read the lyrics and think about what the song meant and I think I was basically the only one who seemed they immediately understood and was also at the same time trying very hard to put effort into my work other students understood but still didn't seem like they cared about school.

[@veryirishdude]

@@Johnm.499 Yeah I feel you, I was lucky enough to have a great History teacher who gave lectures in junior year of high school that somehow captivated even 16-17 year olds, but not everyone was lucky enough to have that experience. Also there's a great ode to Billie Holiday by Frank O'Hara called "The Day Lady Died" that gives me goosebumps every time I read it.

[@animefan25]

The first time I heard "Strange Fruit" was in "Tales from the Hood".

[@maelysd.7101]

I discovered Billie Holiday through her songs broadcasted in Fallout 3; I'm sad and enraged to hear what happened to her, in the end just because she wanted to fight racism. She deserved immensely better.

[@cheeseballgooberpants3591]

Wait which song from Fallout 3?

[@maelysd.7101]

@@cheeseballgooberpants3591 In the game you can hear her songs "Crazy He Calls Me" and "Easy Living"

[@Omnywrench]

US Government: you can't sing that song Billie Holiday: 🎵 *_How 'bout I do... anyway_* 🎵

[@philtkaswahl2124]

If some kind of karma is any "comfort," Harry J. Anslinger later witnessed his own wife die slowly and painfully from the complications of heart failure while he himself later died of angina a broken man, hopelessly addicted to the morphine prescribed for it.

[@girl1213]

Oh it was clear despite "getting away" with so many crimes, he would not get to live or die in peace. Because a man that deep in paranoia and hate can't die peacefully. Look at what happened to Stalin for example.

[@moviefan005]

Anslinger's final moments weren't pretty. By 1973 he was blind, had a debilitatingly enlarged prostate gland, and suffered from angina. Karma had hit him hard.

[@juanortiz9123]

He totally deserved it.

[@Cibershadow2]

Good

[@FlaviusBelisarius-ck6uv]

One of my fathers friend’s knew Anslinger. Not only did he have to suffer watching the wife he loved die slowly and painfully from heart failure, but for the last 10 years of his life, he was also constantly suffering panic attacks and frequently broke down emotionally from delusions that were a product of his intense paranoia that all those he’d wronged and ruined would come for revenge, addicts especially. He himself died an addict; the morphine that he’d been prescribed for his angina. I can think of nothing more poetic. Believe me, Karma got his ass good.

[@moviefan005]

@@FlaviusBelisarius-ck6uv it took about 10 years but justice has been served. And I'd like to think he is suffering now in hell.

[@FlaviusBelisarius-ck6uv]

@@moviefan005 Absolutely, he’s burning in hell.

[@toyamwarr]

American death row inmates have access to free healthcare yet Billie Holiday, a jazz singer, was left to die chained to a hospital bed over a song. That’s a new special level of hate.

[@cocolime6496]

i mean idk if they had that same access back in the day

[@nicholase2868]

It's really dishonest to say inmates have access to health care when they frequently die due to their health complaints being denied. Yeah it's free, but it isn't good and it's not always accessible.

[@justforrow]

Applying modern medical standards to past medical standards is dumb. Newsflash, American death row inmates during Billie Holidays time also didn't have access to free healthcare.

[@boyankovachev7982]

As a heroin addict I want to say that the way she died and the reason why she was killed, because this was a murder, hurts in a way that very few things have been able to hurt me. Yes, okay she was an addict, but what she was made to went through is so awful. Especially getting killed because she did the right thing. But the very worst things, imo, is not only that we haven't learned the fact that addicts are people and need help, not prison, treatment and not punishment. And the second one is that I'm sure that even today there are people who would do what those federal agents did, to people like her, because no matter how far we go, we are not close enough to living in a world without racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and all those awful ways to hate someone who is just different from you. I hope so much that we will be able to get there one day, but I'm sad, cuz it won't be in my lifetime. One love ❤️

[@jaxofspades549]

This… This made me feel things I haven’t felt before about addiction. Many in my family struggle with it, but I never fully internalized it.

[@achristiananarchist2509]

@@OakInch From the NIH: "Methadone is the medication with the longest history of use for opioid use disorder treatment, having been used since 1947."

[@ezekielmcgee825]

@@OakInch Nice try: "After World War II, research on methadone was carried out at the Addition Research Center in Lexington, KY...It began to replace morphine or codeine, the drugs in main use in the late 1940s and early 1950s, as the preferred agent to detoxify individuals from heroin." -- The Praeger International Collection on Addictions. (2009). United States: Praeger Publishers. It's entirely possible for Holiday's doctors to have used methadone for her treatment, even if it wasn't widely practiced at the time.

[@8BitsOfFun1323]

@@OakInch should probably stick to talking about motorcycles mate.

[@ezekielmcgee825]

@@OakInch That quote is literally from an academic text on addiction. Maybe back up your assertions with research?

[@MalikF15]

When I saw how the agents refused to help her I got outraged over the lack of empathy😡

[@OakInch]

It never happened. The methadone treatment for heroin was discovered in the 60's. It wasn't widely used until the 70's. Holiday died in the 50's. It was never a treatment for liver or kidney failure. You should be mad at the people who made this video because they lied to try and get street cred. Sad.

[@scottanos9981]

Well it was 1950s America...

[@amandareynolds8930]

It’s still commonplace here in the US. Law enforcement does not protect people. They only protect themselves, as evidenced by the piss-poor response to the shooting in Uvalde TX.

[@eldartaghiyev8422]

Same with me. I got outraged of that.

[@DragonwolfoftheSands]

Lack of empathy? That's a weird way to describe people that were actively murdering someone

[@davididiart5934]

I first got to listen to strange fruit when I was in college, taking a class on historical art forms. Sent chills down my spine back then, and it still does. Billie Holiday was truly one of the Giants of all time.

[@Dreagostini]

She was part of my english classes bridging from the civil war in the US to the civil rights movement of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. We even worked her on her version of "Strange Fruits". Why I'm mentioning this? Because it's in the curriculum of Lower Saxony, Germany, in the senior high school equivalent. English classes here are mandatory btw.

[@curiousworld7912]

And, if the GOP has its way, American kids will not hear of any of this in school. They prefer we only hear nice things about our past. sigh...

[@animefan25]

If I remember correctly, Enslinger was the reason marijuana became illegal via racist attacks on Mexicans.

[@GiordanDiodato]

basically.

[@kingofflamingos4344]

And to keep there jobs since the guys behind did it after hearing they were becoming obsolete.

[@kyleshiflet9952]

Yup

[@shadowbannedaccont9479]

Almost all the drugs made illegal were made so over race baiting lies the drug war is just a power and wealth grab a unconstitutional one at that supported by both parties if you still think voting matter's lol vote libertarian after you learn it's all rigged by arm's and ammunition.

[@wazzupp1029]

Is it even legal to stop a hospital treating a patient?

[@MinibitX]

I don't think it is NOW, but who knows about then? Also, the government ignoring the rules is sadly nothing new.

[@Segalmed]

It used to be but some states (in the South, of course) allow police to remove patients (against their will and that of the doctors) from hospitals, even if death or severe and lasting effects on the patient's health are inevitable.

[@MarianneKat]

Not now. I've never seen any interference from any court or law in 30 years a nurse. I very much remember so many patients and families wanting to harm themselves or family with unproven 'treatments', which honestly has only gotten worse over my career. The courts now mandate cancer treatment for religious objecting parents, and every law level I've encountered does not interfere with hospital patients. The only thing they do that is the least sketchy is jail to 'release them for medical treatment' or prisoner release for 'medical comoassion', cuz that means they no longer have health care coverage and are on their own in the US. ( which just pushes their care to another govt agency or hospital loss)

[@OakInch]

None of what they said about her death happened. The methadone treatment for heroin was discovered in the 60's. It wasn't widely used until the 70's. Holiday died in the 50's. It was never a treatment for liver or kidney failure. You should be mad at the people who made this video because they lied to try and get street cred. They just lied for outrage points.

[@theresahall5141]

Unfortunately cops rarely don't get their way when it comes to hospitals. The only time I can remember hearing about them standing up to them they tried to arrest the nurse who dared to tell them no. Ended up being a big lawsuit against the cops for their little power trip. They have needed for a long time a huge amount of humble pie.

[@Jake-rm4be]

Wow that is a truly haunting song sung by someone so brave and amazing. Thank you for telling this story. May it never be forgotten

[@blaster915]

Very good episode!! Rough she couldn't escape the drugs on the road abundant with them 🥺

[@theoutlook55]

@7:22 -7:32 I'm glad you took the time to repeat that bit of information. That truly is a WTH moment.

[@fluffydragon1525]

Ooh new episode I wonder what is in store for me

[@fluffydragon1525]

Great video. Incredible respect for this woman.

[@wit4023]

@@fluffydragon1525 yeah

[@davidblair9877]

Remember, kids: “activist” isn’t a dirty word. Martin Luther King was an activist. Rosa Parks was an activist. Nelson Mandela was an activist. Yesterday’s activists are today’s heroes, and today’s activists will be tomorrow’s heroes.

[@wanderingthewastes6159]

That’s borderline historicism mate, I’d advice against making a moral highway from history.

[@lordlierhook3368]

Well depends how activist do the thing they want we could label terroist as activists but you are right that in the end when history looks back at it today’s controversial figures they might be heros

[@Cibershadow2]

@@lordlierhook3368 Millions of moderates claimed Martin Luther King was going too far with his sit ins, as they affected the local economy. What would have changed if he'd listened to them? The history of Pride and LGBTQ+ rights began with the stonewall riots, with protesters literally throwing bricks at police. What if they hadn't? Yesterday's terrorists are often today's heroes. There will be times where you must choose between violent justice and peaceful injustice. But don't assume yesterday's heroes weren't terrorists in their day.

[@West_Kagle]

@David Blair Unfortunately, the reprobates that call themselves 'activists' today have made it a dirty word. ...and only if the Marxists manage to take over and convert this country into another socialist shite-hole will they be considered heroes in the future.

[@Nulono]

Why the hell did the narcotics officers have the authority to overrule the doctors in the first place?

[@West_Kagle]

@Nulono Because they're from the government and they have guns. ...and folks wonder why we keep going on and on about the government making laws that take guns out of the hands of it's law-abiding citizens? The 2nd amendment has nothing to do with hunting and nothing to do with stopping criminals (though the latter is a wonderful side-effect). It has everything to do with protecting ourselves from our own government (so I suppose one could say it actually does involve stopping criminals).

[@Mr.Ducky.o7]

Extra credits should do a series/episode on breaking the sound Barrier

[@bwackbeedows3629]

I misread this as Breaking Bad. EC BB full series recap when?

[@Mr.Ducky.o7]

@@bwackbeedows3629 if they were to make a series show kinda like how they did with extra literature that would Focus on Shows that would not be a bad idea

[@Nipplator99999999999]

The capacity of hatred in a person and the willingness to unleash it for a trivial excuse, that's what always destroys more and more of my soul each time it happens.

[@Ld7snake]

and just think, Anslinger was still a part of the government until JFK. he was past mandatory retirement age and still had influence in politics. The irony being he died while addicted to morphine

[@robinhahnsopran]

An artist truly beyond compare. Thank you for acknowledging her story and her work. 💜

[@oddforoddssake3751]

And to think I’ve been listening to her music for so long, without even knowing about this. Thank you, EH, for this. Thank you so much

[@notorioustori]

Thank you for this video. Many people know of works but not of the often times turbulent lives of many of our accomplished artists of yesteryear.

[@adrianaslund8605]

The book Chasing the Scream goes into some detail on this. And also why the war on drugs is morally bankrupt and why harm reduction and compassion works better than demonization.

[@afrinaut3094]

The sad truth is AfricanAmerican women were also lynched in the United States to. though it’s often not really covered or talked about. Unless you’re Ida B Wells.

[@andrewk6320]

For anyone who hasn't heard the song, please go listen to it. It is one of the most powerful songs that I've ever heard.

[@Hanzo_theodd]

One of many stories untold. Thanks Extra History! Your guys have earned a Patreon sub!

[@JoRdi-ul4xg]

new episode let's goo

[@draexian530]

A Jewish song, performed by an African American, would of course find the ire of the US Government.

[@StandAgainstTheCartels]

This video is an excellent summary of the events. For a more detailed account read the book "Chasing the Scream." That's likely the source they used, and it was the basis for the film depicting the same events. The book covers much more than Holiday's life story, but it's easily one of the best nonfiction books I've ever read. Highly recommended.

[@thoughtprism2963]

Dang, what a stunning story. Glad you shared it.

[@geostyma]

I hope people look up the song. It's so heart wrenching

[@quincyboardman2773]

Someone making drug policy was racist woooooow that could never happen today *intense sarcasm*

[@madeleinebabbitt]

Wow! What are the chances, I was just hearing about her a few days ago, and I was super curious, Thanks for this wonderful video

[@jacob4920]

I never mentioned this before, because it only just occurred to me today. The animation/characters of the entire "Extra History" series reminds me of the same drawing style used by Bill Watterson, in the "Calvin and Hobbes" comics of the 90's. I always felt it reminded me of something, and it's only just now really that I finally put two and two together here.

[@SkittytheKid]

When I was little, I had to have several shots regularly and I had tiny veins. My mom, who gave me my shots when I was little, would play God Bless the Child every time I had one since I liked that song and it relaxed me. Still do to this day, tragic what happened to her. Glad that you mentioned the song on here

[@Ryu_D]

Thank you for the video.

[@spartanx9293]

4:48 because criticizing the murder of innocent people is something you're supposed to be afraid of

[@leflamewolf]

Amazing to hear about the history school never wanted to teach.

[@Z28KR]

Fun fact about Commodore Records: the family who ran it was related to Billy Crystal (the comedian). He remembers growing up with Billie and other great artists around alot, she even took him to the movies when he was a child.

[@EchoByrnes]

I first discovered Billie Holiday from a Billy Crystal special of all places. Apparently his uncle was the owner of Commodore Records and his dad worked at the music shop in the front of the label. The story he recounted was that one day, after a recording session, or maybe it was just a visit to the store, Billie took him to see the movie Shane

[@SamBrockmann]

I took a history of Jazz course over a decade ago, and I distinctly recall hearing "Strange Fruit". What a beautiful and sorrowful song.

[@imaqueen223]

I learn more from this channel the I do at school.

[@sierrabaldwin7519]

I’ll be listening to Strange Fruit the minute I get off shift. RIP Billie Holiday, your did not die in vain

[@bluebrain7009]

Knew this song from an episode of Cold Case. Quite an evocative work of art.

[@Sniperbear13]

Music is powerful. it can move you to tears, or sweep you off yer feet, it can tell a story that words alone might not be able to convey.

[@skullly9074]

always loved the song strange fruit since i was intrudused to it in my english class. awsome song with an even more powerful message. great episode Extra Credits.

[@DaBaSoftware]

This is frustrating to learn, but I am glad her story is able to continue seeing its deserved light of day.

[@GMoneyGonz]

If you haven't already listened to the song, I would highly recommend. It's a short song, but the words are haunting.

[@c.walter7890]

Thanks for making me cry this morning

[@timesathousand]

In racists eyes, there will never be a good way to complain about racism; the proponents of it will always move the bar to say that how you're doing it inappropriate. If you want to find racists, look at the people trying to move that bar.

[@tpaktop2_1na]

03:43 "Commodore Records" The Comedian Billy Crystal's uncle ran that company. He tells great stories about Commodore Records in his "700 Sundays" show.

[@GiordanDiodato]

i hope you don't mean the 700 Club

[@tpaktop2_1na]

@@GiordanDiodato 🤭😂 If you saw the show, you would see how funny that statement would be. Billy Crystal really loved that record company.

[@AmyLou733]

Brb, gotta go listen to that song

[@CC-wv1ny]

Love it

[@violetholiday]

I am so proud to be named for such an amazing woman, especially in such a conflicted time in US history.

[@ianmoore3470]

Dude you guys got to further into Jon Hammond, he discovered basically every musician from the fourties’ to the seventies, plus super huge civil rights activist

[@DDWyss]

I read in another Jazz bio-book that Billie's abusive husband used her heroin addiction to control her by trying to make sure that he was her only source of access to heroin.

[@AzraelIbliz]

Really impressive and strong woman. So much harship and still she managed to fight back against a whole society.

[@athena8534]

I really liked this, but I think it's also important to add that Nina Simone was the one that picked up the torch after Holiday. She continued to sing Strange Fruit and got even more popular under her. She just didn't sing Feeling Good

[@lucendahonore3838]

Ohhhhh I need to see an Eartha Kitt episode

[@Vlogsaboutdogs]

I LOVES YOU GUYS!!!

[@johnwilliam9954]

Bit off topic, I always wondered what happened to their previous show host.

[@wit4023]

Amazing

[@ZR3009]

Seeing there's such a level of racism that would go *THIS* far to get rid of a singer like her is making me physically sick.... Rest in Peace, Billie Holiday.

[@sirsmiteful6285]

“Crazy he caaalls me. Sure I’m crazy…crazy in love, am I?”

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Always the feds eh?

[@TheCreepypro]

I had no idea about this fine woman before this video but now I do and my life is infinitely better because of it now if you'll excuse me I have a song to listen to...

[@namethathasntbeentakenyetm3682]

Strange Fruit sounds nice in a haunting way

[@thommyneter168]

Always thought the song was from Nina Simone, thanks for the video!

[@willsearcy6495]

Video suggestion: Bass Reeves

[@GallowglassVT]

Thank you, Ms Holiday.

[@spangelicious837]

Wasn't there a movie about her way back when? I was too young to really understand what it was about, but I do remember that ending where she was denied medication. But maybe I'm mixing it up with something else. 🤔

[@guitaristAustin]

As someone who has been targeted by bad faith officials. As someone who got treatment 8 years ago, it amazes me that this problem still happens to this day. Treatment for drug use is not available to many people and it’s hard to get access to medications because of organizations like the dea.

[@nochillwill4667]

7:21 listen and repeat until it sticks THAT is the america I saw and still see to this day and the fact some people don't want to talk about it is proof we haven't gotten over it. Men not ashamed of their past can speak openly and admit it.

[@mnm1273]

"Men not ashamed of their past can speak openly and admit it". Well said.

[@strangecoasteroutdoors799]

Talk about what? Poorly researched “facts” they didn’t even get her cause of death right in this video.

[@mnm1273]

@@strangecoasteroutdoors799 The statements about the context of her death are accurate.

[@strangecoasteroutdoors799]

@@mnm1273 she died of cirrhosis of the liver which was unavoidable the methadone thing happened months before means that she would have been detoxed off of heroin by the time of her death. So what context am I missing? The government had nothing to do with her death.

[@GiordanDiodato]

@@strangecoasteroutdoors799 found the racist.

[@LukeNasti]

Hell yea !!!

[@robynsegg]

FYI: Because she was born in my hometown of Philadelphia, you can see her Philly Walk of Fame plaque on Broad Street!

[@Zoxesyr]

Only one line for the relationship with Tallulah Bankhead? really....

[@Youfree1000]

The only reason I know billy holiday is from fallout 4. Some of her songs play on diamond city radio 📻

[@TK-_-GZ]

algorithmic punch!

[@Caseyuptobat]

once again reminding you that timbre rhymes with amber

[@generalfluffyproto]

So can we know request storys about the lives of singers?

[@Zanuth-001]

Gosh, what a heartbreaking end to a wonderfully talented woman

[@Swishy_Blue]

Go. Listen. To. Strange. Fruit. Please, now.

[@Detah_]

Somebody should make a movie about this. I would see that over the new Elvis movie they are making

[@jonedson5910]

Hulu originals made one last year. us v billie holiday

[@Detah_]

@@jonedson5910 oh I didn't know that I rarely even watch anything on streaming apps anymore and when I do its for anime

[@bobbyjones8312]

2:09 the word is pronounced Tamber. Not Timber. Even though it's spelt timbre.

[@eddsworldlover]

To the TikTok kids watching this, this is where that blood on the leaves song by yungxchris or however you spell it comes from

[@theengagedfew]

The Federal Prison Camp for Women is in ALDERSON, West Virginia, Not Anderson.

[@tootlingturtle7254]

Anslinger sounds like he’d be fun at parties

[@shawnheatherly]

A powerful song sung by a powerful woman.

[@sarasamaletdin4574]

This is a lot of better than the movie that was made a few years ago with bear similar title. Hollywood is too afraid these days of actual biopics so it was twisted regarding timeline so you didn’t learn enough about her overall, and it was mediocre overall as well. Although Andra Day was good.

[@hlibushok]

History of beer was interesting. Maybe you'll do tobacсo next?