I had never seen this episode; it is one that should be seen by all. The script's central theme is, 'Many had an impact on their Generation---now you can and must do it now for yours'. The sets and the casting of Billie Holliday were spot on; she gives a stellar performance of the talented but troubled singer, plagued by drug use that eventually took her life. But the song she had the courage to sing about lynchings in the South at the end of her shows---a risk she chose to take for the sake of those who died before her---had a lasting impact to those who heard it about the atrocities committed on the innocent for the only reason of being black. I was especially moved by the set in the museum of actual photographs of the lynchings, where the rebellious granddaughter is forced to face the horrendous past endured by those victims by her loving grandmother. She then has her own choices to make about how she will survive in life---and facing the past, with the Angel's help, gives her the will to have and impact on herself, her generation and her world. An important message of hope, and a 'must see' episode.
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