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“Her voice would not be silenced.”

The United States vs. Billie Holiday

20212h 11m★ 6.5

• Music
• Drama
• History

Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."

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