My favorite part of this story is the plot twist in the middle. Which you obviously have to watch to find out what it is. The lesson of this piece was patience. While others were rushing on to the next story my journalistic instincts told me there was something more. It was well worth the wait. It was viewed by millions online and mentioned in the New York Times

The song “is going to be relevant until cops start getting convicted for murdering Black people,” Michael Meeropol, one of Abel Meeropol’s sons, told “CBS This Morning” before Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, was convicted of murdering Mr. Floyd.

“When that happens, maybe then ‘Strange Fruit’ will be a relic of a barbaric past,” he said. “But until then, it’s a mirror on a barbaric present.”