I n 1939, Billie Holiday rode the service elevator in a midtown Manhattan hotel on her way to sing on stage. Of course, the hotel had a front door, but Holiday wasn’t allowed to use it because ...

Yet we do practically the same thing every day in the week to sick people hooked on drugs.” Still, some part of Billie Holiday believed she had done something evil, with her drug use ...

For him, Billie Holiday was an ideal symptom of the drug problem—and an irresistible target for his crusade. She was a woman. She was black. As a child, she scrubbed floors in a brothel.

Called “The Black Hand,” the chapter documents the real-life circumstances of, as Hari writes, “how Billie Holiday entered the drug war.” The chapter involves Harry Anslinger, who was a ...

All over the world while we’re talking, people are listening to Billie Holiday, and they are feeling stronger. And that is an incredible achievement. And the people resisting the drug war who I ...

It’s also the year of Holiday’s death at age 44, after years of alcohol and drug addiction. “Singing is living to me,” Billie says. In this concert-style play by Lanie Robertson ...

Billie Holiday and Nina Simone may seem like the stalwarts of jazz, but how did Simone's former inspiration turn into someone she hated? Find out here.

Billie Holiday had reasons to sing the blues ... Hospitalized with cirrhosis, she again was arrested for drugs by cops who handcuffed her to the bed. She died there a month later at age 44.

And this is part of this epic conflict that took place between Billie Holiday and her bravery and Harry Anslinger. So Harry Anslinger invented the modern war on drugs. He's the first person to ...