Question: Laura Duncan famously performed a song at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1938 that was adapted from a poem by whom?

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Michael Bublé Meets Madison Square Garden: Michael Bublé Meets Madison Square Garden is the Grammy award-winning third live album released by Canadian singer Michael Bublé.  The album features an Audio CD and Live DVD, in the fashion of all of Buble's live albums.  The DVD follows the lead-up to what is described as one of the biggest shows of Bublé's career, to be performed at Madison Square Garden in New York City.  Bublé visits the Blue Note Club, where he first performed in New York City over six years prior.  There is also backstage footage at the Gardens, and footage of Bublé with his family.  The DVD was directed and produced by Jason Hehir, on the documentary side, with concert footage directed by Dick Carruthers.  The trailer premiered at Bublé's official website.  The album released in two primary versions: the standard orange cover edition, and a blue-covered "fan" edition.  The latter includes two bonus tracks on both the CD and DVD.  The fan edition is not available in stores, and is only available from Bublé's website.  It won a Grammy Award on 2010 for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album At the 52nd Grammy Awards.

Madison Square Garden Towers: The Madison Square Garden Towers were the name of proposed twin 1400 ft residential skyscrapers that were to be constructed north of Madison Square Garden in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.  The project featured a complex of seven buildings, including a stadium and a new Penn Station.  The cost of the project was US$14 billion.  The architects Norman Foster and David Childs, and the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill were designing the project.  The owners were Stephen Ross of Related Cos. and Steven Roth of Vornado Realty Trust.  The towers would have risen to be two of the tallest structures in the Midtown Manhattan skyline, with one rising higher than the Empire State Building, currently one of New York's tallest buildings at 1,250 feet (381 m) and would also have been higher than the roof, though not the spire, of One World Trade Center.  The towers are essentially canceled as Madison Square Garden is going ahead with renovations of the current arena, rather than a relocation that would have made the towers possible.

2000 NBA draft: The 2000 NBA draft was held on June 28, 2000 at the Target Center in Minneapolis.  It was the last draft held at the home arena of an NBA team until 2011; the following and subsequent drafts (through 2010) all took place at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City (though Madison Square Garden itself is the home of the New York Knicks, they do not play in the theater).  As of 2017, it is also the last NBA draft where a college senior would be selected as the top selection of the draft.

New York Liberty: The New York Liberty are a professional basketball team based in New York City, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).  The team was founded in 1997 and is one of the eight original franchises of the league.  The team is owned by The Madison Square Garden Company, who also owns the Liberty's National Basketball Association (NBA) counterpart, the New York Knicks.  Home games are played at Madison Square Garden in the borough of Manhattan.

Madison Square Garden: Madison Square Garden, often called "MSG" or simply "The Garden", is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan.  Located in Midtown Manhattan between 7th and 8th Avenues from 31st to 33rd Streets, it is situated atop Pennsylvania Station.  It is the fourth venue to bear the name "Madison Square Garden", the first two (1879 and 1890) of which were located on Madison Square, on East 26th Street and Madison Avenue, with the third Madison Square Garden further uptown at Eighth Avenue and 50th Street.  The Garden is used for professional basketball and ice hockey, as well as boxing, concerts, ice shows, circuses, professional wrestling and other forms of sports and entertainment.  It is close to other midtown Manhattan landmarks, including the Empire State Building, Koreatown, and Macy's at Herald Square.  It is home to the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL), the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and since 1997, the New York Liberty (WNBA).

The King Stays King: The King Stays King (also known as Formula, Vol.  1 Tour) is an ongoing worldwide concert tour by American singer Romeo Santos.  The tour was a promotion for his debut solo album, "Formula, Vol.  1".  On December 13, 2011, Santos announced that he would begin his initial leg of his solo tour on February 11, 2012, in the United States.  His first concert began with two consecutive shows at Madison Square Garden which became sold-out twice.  During the concert at Madison Square Garden, Santos was accompanied by fellow American bachata singer-songer Prince Royce.  For "Debate de 4", three men from the audience were randomly selected to join Santos on the song.  Usher made an appearance on the encore for the duet "Promise".  At the final concert in the Madison Square Garden, Santos was joined by American rapper P. Diddy for the song "Mi Corazoncito".  The concerts at Madison Square Garden were recorded and later released as a live album titled "" on November 6, 2012.

Strange Fruit: "Strange Fruit" is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939.  Written by teacher Abel Meeropol as a poem and published in 1937, it protested American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans.  Such lynchings had reached a peak in the South at the turn of the century, but continued there and in other regions of the United States.  According to the Tuskegee Institute, 1,953 Americans were murdered by lynching, about three quarters of them black.  The lyrics are an extended metaphor linking a tree’s fruit with lynching victims.  Meeropol set it to music and, with his wife and the singer Laura Duncan, performed it as a protest song in New York City venues in the late 1930s, including Madison Square Garden.

Madison Square Garden (1890): Madison Square Garden was an indoor arena in New York City, the second by that name, and the second to be located at 26th Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan.  Built in 1890 at the cost of a half-million dollars and closing in 1925, the arena hosted numerous events, including boxing matches, orchestral performances, light operas and romantic comedies, the annual French Ball, both the Barnum and the Ringling circuses, and the Democratic National Convention in 1924, which nominated John W. Davis after 103 ballots.  The 1890 version replaced the first Madison Square Garden, and was itself replaced by the third Madison Square Garden (which was the first to be located away from Madison Square).

Madison Square Garden Company: The Madison Square Garden Company is an American sports and entertainment holding company based in New York City.  The company was established in 2010 when Cablevision spun off the New York Knicks, New York Rangers, Madison Square Garden, MSG Network and other entertainment assets as an independent, publicly traded company.

Laura Duncan (American singer): Laura Duncan was an African-American singer, whose performance of the song "Strange Fruit" at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1938 helped bring the song to the notice of singer Billie Holiday, who later performed a powerful rendition of the song.

Supporting paragraphs: Laura Duncan (American singer) Strange Fruit
Answer: Abel Meeropol