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By Elizabeth Stephens April 24, 2015 Billie Holiday Born Eleanora Fagan in Philadelphia on April 17, 1915, Billie Holiday, affectionately known to many as “Lady Day,” was undoubtedly one of the most highly-acclaimed female jazz vocalists of the Harlem Renaissance. Throughout her lifetime, she was honored with induction to the Rock […]
By Johann Hari January 23, 2015 Billie Holiday (AP Photo/HO) From his first day in office in 1930, Harry Anslinger had a problem, and everybody knew it. He had just been appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics—a tiny agency, buried in the gray bowels of the Treasury Department in Washington, […]