8 extrodinary women (Scorpiana X, Sima Lee,
Ms. Pheonix, Yesika
Starr, Controverse, Imani, Krislo, Bruja) who came together to stomp out all myths about sisterhood, contributing extroadinary works to the
urban tradition of literature and art period.
Strange Fruit was introduced in the year 1937 by a teacher named
Abel Meeropol,the poem was created to shed light on the American lynchings that spread through the southern regions like wildfire. Later the poem was made into a song, sang by our
lovely Billie Holliday. The song spread awareness about our own holocaust, the Black Holocaust. She sang:
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
Today in sheer
respect and rememberance of those who suffered, the visionaries who went against the grain of a blatantly
racist and hateful time, emerges Strange Fruits. A non profit organization catering to female youth, ages
8-18, dedicated to providing an
alternative to the negativity in the streets and through media, by providing a positive alternative of self expression through The Arts, Poetry, (Creative Writing), and HipHop and by offering workshops, counseling, open dialect, AND SISTERHOOD to ensure that needs are met and questions are answered.
www.thestrangefruits.com
I get my 8 servings of strange fruit everyday!
