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Dans les années 1940, la chanteuse Billie Holiday est un porte-voix de la cause noire, notamment avec sa chanson "Strange Fruit". Elle devient vite la cible de Harry Anslinger, à la tête du Bureau fédéral aux narcotiques. Pour faire tomber la diva, les policiers misent sur ses addictions. Anslinger charge Jimmy Fletcher, un inspecteur noir, d'infiltrer son entourage. Celui-ci parvient à se rapprocher de Billie Holiday et finit par tomber amoureux d'elle. Lors d'un concert, au moment où elle interprète le célèbre titre, Billie est arrêtée par la police. Commencent alors les ennuis judiciaires pour cette femme tourmentée et courageuse...
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00:00Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Billie Holiday.
00:05Reporters keep asking me,
00:06Billie, why you do the things you do?
00:08This is what I tell them.
00:11We love you.
00:15The NAACP says Billie Holiday is the voice of our people.
00:22Which one of my songs is your favorite song?
00:24Strange Fruit.
00:25It's a song about important things, you know,
00:27things that are going on in the country.
00:31This holiday woman is causing a lot of people
00:33to think the wrong things.
00:34It's a starting gun for this so-called civil rights movement.
00:37Y'all got a plan?
00:38She's a drug addict.
00:39Exactly.
00:41I cut Strange Fruit.
00:42It's for your own good, okay?
00:44I'll say what I want.
00:50Get her off that stage.
00:54They won't let me sing no way.
00:56No clubs, no money, no nothing.
01:00She's singing it for all of us.
01:03Ain't no other Negro star bold enough to do it.
01:06She's made something of herself and you can't take it
01:09because she's strong, beautiful, and black.
01:15You think I'm gonna stop singing that song?
01:17You grandkids will be singing Strange Fruit.
01:24You grandkids will be singing Strange Fruit.
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