Strange Fruit: A film screening

Tuesday, February 3, 2009
6:30pm – 8:00pm
The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
715 Broadway, Main Floor
(Enter at 1 Washington Place)

Strange Fruit is the title of the anti-lynching poem that was written in the mid-1930s by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish public school teacher from the Bronx. The haunting ballad, made famous by jazz icon Billie Holiday remains one of the most influential protest songs ever written. Strange Fruit brings viewers face to face with the terror of lynching as it spotlights the courage and heroism of those who fought for racial and social justice

Admission is free. Seating is on a first-come, first-saved basis.