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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."

A heavy, suffocating sense of injustice hangs over every smoky jazz club and police interrogation. This soulful portrait tracks the relentless government campaign to silence a voice that refused to be broken.

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