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Courtesy of HuluHulu has shared the first trailer for Lee Daniels' upcoming film The United States vs Billie Holiday, which stars Andra Day as the legendary jazz singer. The film -- which was originally set up at Paramount Pictures for a February 2021 release, but later sold to Hulu -- follows Holiday's tumultuous life and story. It centers on her 1939 song about lynching, "Strange Fruit," which made her a target of the FBI. "Reporters keep asking me, 'Billie, why you do the things you do?'" says Day's Holiday in the film before she belts out ...

Courtesy of Hulu In the film starring Andra Day, Daniels tracks the FBI’s fear of the power of 'Strange Fruit': "The government saw that song as a threat and she was a target. That's history and they keep it from us." On a list of Civil Rights movement leaders, few people would think to name Billie Holiday. But in his new movie, The United States vs Billie Holiday, starring Andra Day, Lee Daniels shines a light on that facet of the jazz singer’s story, in which Holiday’s 1939 song about lynching, "Strange Fruit," made her a target of the FBI.

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With the drugs and alcohol. what does that say about our society? that that many people feel hopeless enough that they take pills for it because mark johan hari is one of the people who has thought most deeply about this country. he is author of the fantastic book "lost connections" and he joins us tonight. you have really written more movingly and insightfully about this question than anyone i have seen. what does this tell us and is there a better way to handle depression? >> thanks so much. i'm really happy to be back with you. as you were saying that, i was thinking about, as you know i we...

Any decent person is horrified by what happened yesterday and parkland. every thoughtful person knows of something horrible is going on in american society. tragedies like this happen for a reason and it doesn't have a lot to do with guns. the percentage of american households with firearms has dropped dramatically over the past 35 years. meanwhile, the number of mass shootings has risen. if you're over 40, you did not grow up in a country like this. the question is, what happened? it could be a lot of things. far more americans than ever before take psychiatric medications. our outbursts of v...