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26. Feb. 2021 · The United States vs. Billie Holiday depicts the FBI chasing Holiday for her drug use and locking her away on narcotics charges as a roundabout way to suppress her musical activism. And that may ...
3. Apr. 2015 · When Holiday spoke frankly of her drug addiction in the hope of being cured, she was, instead, imprisoned and stripped of her New York cabaret card, a license to perform where liquor was sold. She ...
Vor einem Tag · Billie Holiday (born April 7, 1915, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died July 17, 1959, New York City, New York) was an American jazz singer, one of the greatest from the 1930s to the ’50s. Eleanora (her preferred spelling) Harris was the daughter of Clarence Holiday, a professional musician who for a time played guitar with the Fletcher ...
16. Apr. 2021 · He entwines Holiday's story with that the of the man who persecuted her until her early death, federal Narcotics Commissioner Harry Anslinger, in a way that sets out the key elements of the book: the connections between drug addiction and trauma, the drug war and racism, and the unfathomable cruelty that the dream of of a drug-free world can permit.
18. Feb. 2021 · The bureau exploited Holiday’s own drug addiction to try and silence her. Here’s Daniels speaking to our Michel Martin about that incredible story and his own struggles with addiction. MICHEL ...
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18. Feb. 2021 · For the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, the story of Billie Holiday, the legendary jazz singer, came to her in dribs and drabs. When Parks was growing up, she said, “our ...
8. Juni 2006 · While her popularity was growing, Holiday’s personal life remained troubled. Though one of the highest paid performers of the time, much of her income went to pay for her serious drug addictions ...
