{"id":176425963,"date":"2013-09-30T00:44:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T05:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/?p=176425963"},"modified":"2013-09-30T00:44:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T05:44:07","slug":"video-strange-fruit-pbs-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/2013\/09\/30\/video-strange-fruit-pbs-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Strange Fruit PBS Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/strange-fruit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-176425964\" alt=\"strange fruit\" src=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/strange-fruit.jpg\" width=\"563\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/strange-fruit.jpg 563w, http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/strange-fruit-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: xx-large;\"><strong>STRANGE FRUIT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: xx-large;\"><strong>PBS Documentary<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/strange-fruit-02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-176425965\" alt=\"strange fruit 02\" src=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/strange-fruit-02.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/strange-fruit-02.jpg 640w, http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/strange-fruit-02-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"922\" height=\"692\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z9Cz3iaQgKw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">The legacy of a song unique in the annals of American music. Best-known from Billie Holiday&#8217;s haunting 1939 rendition, the song &#8220;Strange Fruit&#8221; is a harrowing portrayal of the lynching of a black man in the American South.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">The film tells a dramatic story of America&#8217;s past by using one of the most influential protest songs ever written as its epicenter. The saga brings us face-to-face with the terror of lynching as it spotlights the courage and heroism of those who fought for racial justice when to do so was to risk ostracism and livelihood if white &#8211; and death if black. It examines the history of lynching, and the interplay of race, labor, the Left and popular culture that would give rise to the civil rights movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STRANGE FRUIT PBS Documentary The legacy of a song unique in the annals of American music. Best-known from Billie Holiday&#8217;s haunting 1939 rendition, the song &#8220;Strange Fruit&#8221; is a harrowing portrayal of the lynching of a black man in the American South.\u00a0 The film tells a dramatic story of America&#8217;s past by using one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176425963"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176425963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176425963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176425966,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176425963\/revisions\/176425966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176425963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176425963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176425963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}