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When the Feds are the enemy

When the Feds are the enemy

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"The United States vs. Billie Holiday" chronicles the U.S. government's war on Billie Holiday in the late 1940s, when the Bureau of Narcotics saw in the peerless, heroin-addicted singer a chance to racialize its so-called war on drugs. 

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When the Feds are the enemy

When the Feds are the enemy

KCRW, Joe Morgenstern