Yet we do practically the same thing every day in the week to sick people hooked on drugs.” Still, some part of Billie Holiday believed she had done something evil, with her drug use ...

I n 1939, Billie Holiday rode the service elevator in a midtown Manhattan hotel on her way to sing on stage. Of course, the hotel had a front door, but Holiday wasn’t allowed to use it because ...

Called “The Black Hand,” the chapter documents the real-life circumstances of, as Hari writes, “how Billie Holiday entered the drug war.” The chapter involves Harry Anslinger, who was a ...

For him, Billie Holiday was an ideal symptom of the drug problem—and an irresistible target for his crusade. She was a woman. She was black. As a child, she scrubbed floors in a brothel.

Billie Holiday,” manages to get it only half right ... Edgar Hoover’s anti-drug crusader Harry Anslinger on her. In Daniels’ recounting of events, Anslinger is played by Garrett Hedlund.

Billie Holiday and Nina Simone may seem like the stalwarts of jazz, but how did Simone's former inspiration turn into someone she hated? Find out here.

“Billie Holiday is one of the great fashion icons ... Holiday later used the trappings of that world — the music, alcohol and drugs as well as the gowns and minks — to create a lasting ...

Billie Holiday was a preeminent jazz vocalist ... where she has a kind of a crackling voice," probably due to drug and alcohol abuse. Holiday's life swung up and down. One peak occurred in ...

Roston stars as Billie Holiday in “Lady Day at Emerson’s ... notoriety for dabbles into drugs and drinking, admiration for her civil rights advocacy, and sympathy for her history of abusive ...

drugs and unjust laws. These tropes were revived by Lee Daniels in his 2021 Holiday biopic, “The United States vs. Billie Holiday.” To combat this reductive view, every major Holiday biography ...