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Strange Fruit 21st Century – a Multimedia Installation

August 20, 2013 by Mariamma Kambon

Strange Fruit Southern trees bear a strange fruit,
 Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,   1939, a “progressive” New York City nightclub – the Café Society. Billie Holiday beneath a single spotlight. 
 Black body swinging in the Southern breeze,
 Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.   The reality of American racism revealed naked and undeniable beneath that light, thrust into plain view by the force of unflinching words, profoundly interpreted by the legendary songstress with […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: enslavement, freedom, Harriet Tubman, Jim Crow, Liberation, lynching, mass incarceration, Michelle Alexander, photography, prison industrial complex, race-based oppression, resistance, segregation, slavery, strange fruit, The New Jim Crow

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