by Valentina Restrepo | Nov 21, 2025
“Strange Fruit,” recorded in 1939 by Billie Holiday, is one of the most well-known and powerful protest songs. Originally written as a poem in 1937 by Abel Meeropol (under the name Lewis Allan), it protested the lynching of Black Americans and systemic racism.[1] The...
by Joshua Vargas | Dec 7, 2024
The image before you was taken on May 4th, 1912, at a women’s suffrage parade in New York City. The photo depicts a parade of women marching up 5th Avenue from Washington Square to Carnegie Hall. The parade is one of the two that took place in New York in 1912;...