Reflecting on 'The United States vs. Billie Holiday'
Lee Daniels’s Billie Holiday biopic The United States vs. Billie Holiday was released on February 26th, 2021, and my immediate reaction to it was one of discomfort.

Kwasi Songui (born 7 October 1979, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian actor and voice artist. He is best known as Coach Jon Jon Hendricks on Blue Mountain State (2010–2012), Persian in 300 (2006), and Jimmy the Iceman in Nicky Deuce (2013). In film, he has appeared in The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Lucky Number Slevin (2006), Brick Mansions (2014), Moonfall (2022), and Beau Is Afraid (2023). In voice work, he is known as Shredder in the TMNT video game (2007) and Garek Blood in Guardians of the Galaxy (2021).
Lee Daniels’s Billie Holiday biopic The United States vs. Billie Holiday was released on February 26th, 2021, and my immediate reaction to it was one of discomfort.
An artistic approach to the impact of Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit”.