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Prophet's Voice - Strange Fruit and Sacred Rage: When Prophetic Speech Escapes the Pulpit

Prophet's Voice - Strange Fruit and Sacred Rage: When Prophetic Speech Escapes the Pulpit

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In 1939, Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" transformed a Greenwich Village nightclub into sacred ground. Host Sol Bishop explores how prophetic speech escaped the church and entered the public square, tracing a line from Hebrew prophet Nathan to Holiday's anti-lynching anthem.

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