The legendary actress and civil rights activist gets some special due just in time for Black History Month. It's Black History Month, and the United States Postal Service has decided to mark the ...
Lena Horne was a trailblazer during her lifetime, becoming one of the first Black female stars to make it to the top rungs of show business. She’s still blazing trails 12 years after her death. The ...
Songstress Lena Horne is preparing to celebrate her 90th birthday. Author Donald Bogle talks about Horne's legendary career as a singer and an actress as chronicled in his book "Bright Boulevards, ...
Entertainer Lena Horne, who died on Sunday, was an amazingly visual singer—thus it's hardly surprising that she was the first African-American vocalist to have a substantial career in the movies. But ...
NEW YORK-- Brooklyn's very own Lena Horne is now the first Black woman to have a Broadway theater named after her. On Tuesday, the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on West 47th Street was renamed the Lena ...
Jazz great and actress Lena Horne died yesterday at age 92. Horne broke many barriers in the industry and paved the way for African Americans. At a time when African American actors were over looked ...
Janet Jackson Was Going To Play Lena Horne In A Biopic Series Before The 2004 Super Bowl Controversy
According to a new report, fans might have seen Janet Jackson portray actress Lena Horne in a biopic series years ago. But the infamous Super Bowl 2004 half-time show shot those chances down.
Lena Horne, who was the first black performer to be signed to a long-term contract by a major Hollywood studio and who went on to achieve international fame as a singer, died on Sunday night at New ...
Lena Horne, the legendary singer, actress, and civil rights activist died Sunday night at the age of 92 in New York City. Horne, born in Brooklyn, got her start by singing in the Cotton Club at age 16 ...
New York -- Lena Horne, the enchanting jazz singer and actress who reviled the bigotry that allowed her to entertain white audiences but not socialize with them, slowing her rise to Broadway ...
During this summer of protests jazz songstress Clairdee offers us "A Love Letter to Lena," a CD that pays tribute to Lena Horne not only because of her talent, but also because the singer fought ...
In collaborating to design the Town Hall’s inaugural Lena Horne Prize for Artists Creating Social Impact, Imani Shanklin Roberts, BFA/MS Art and Design Education ’14, and Nala Turner, MPS Art Therapy ...
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