n, billie." It's a brilliant and beautiful poem that speaks back to Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" and evokes a whole history of gender and race in the American South. You are the ideal reader for this poem. We would use what we filmed together in an upcoming season of Poetry in America. We would also use the conte

Yet new sources for sugar undercut the value of slavery in plantation societies like the West Indies. But capitalism also reinvigorated slavery in the American South to satisfy the ravenous hunger for cotton that could now be milled into cheap textiles for the world. Hence the connection of places like South Caro

ar mainly with African Americans, Redding later reached a wider American popular music audience. Along with his group, he first played small gigs in the American South, then performed in the western states at the popular Los Angeles night club Whisky a Go Go. European appearances included London, Paris and other m