Strange Fruit - How Willful Ignorance Perpetuates White Supremacy in America
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This podcast pulls together three elegant Black voices to tell the story of how white supremacy and willful ignorance continue to feed racism in America. The story begins with a question from American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist James Baldwin.
Eleanora Fagan, more famously know as Billy Holiday was an American jazz singer. Here her rendition of "Strange Fruit" serves as foundation for the recitation of the names of some of the recent victims of police murders of black men and women in America.
The podcast concludes with the words of Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr. as he invites us to shed the tattered vale of inherent goodness and recognize "the ugliness that's in us".
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