Justice Takes a Holiday

In 1948, blues legend Billie Holiday was released from a stint of several months in a federal penitentiary. She had been imprisoned, allegedly for her drug use, but in reality on a drummed-up charge aimed at silencing the woman who dared to sing about the lynching of Black Americans in “Strange Fruit.”

Now, 73 years after her release, Lee Daniels’s takes on the prescient story of the racism she endured while also highlighting her resilience as a Black