The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)
Directed by Lee Daniels
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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(Think Amadeus , and how it reframed Mozart’s life as a back-and-forth between him and rival composer Antonio Salieri.)
It’s a lot like a scene in Straight Outta Compton when police charge the stage when hip hop group N.W.A. plays “F– tha Police,” which shows you how much the world has censored Black people from speaking their truth even five decades later.