notice from The Rosenberg Fund for Children https://www.rfc.org/

Tomorrow morning, CBS's This Morning: Saturday will broadcast a segment on Strange Fruit, which will include information on writer Abel Meeropol and interviews with his two sons, RFC Founder Robert Meeropol and Advisory Board member Michael Meeropol.

We’re told the approximate air time will be 7:45 AM EST [24 Apr 2021]and it will also be available to stream afterwards on the show’s website. https://www.cbsnews.com/cbs-this-morning/saturday/

Abel wrote the song in the 1930s and Billie Holiday’s defiant performances cemented its place in civil rights history as well as popular culture. Strange Fruit’s macabre lyrics confronted the horror of lynchings; it has persisted in the public’s consciousness and reemerged as recent subject matter for the 2020 documentary, Billie, and the 2021 academy-nominated feature film The United States vs Billie Holiday.

Poems, chart-topping hit songs, and protest chants in support of Black Lives continue to evoke "strange fruit" as a metaphor. As each day Black Americans -- even children -- are murdered at the hands of police and far right-wing insurrectionists form a veritable modern-day lynch mob at the Capitol, the message of Strange Fruit sadly endures.