Tag: Lena Horne

  • This book uses a black/white interracial lens to examine the lives and careers of eight prominent American-born actresses from the silent age through the studio era, New Hollywood, and into the present century: Josephine Baker, Nina Mae McKinney, Fredi Washington, Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Lonette McKee, Jennifer Beals and Halle Berry.

  • Horne’s daughter Gail Lumet Buckley believes her mother would be proud to be put alongside the other members of the USPS Black Heritage Stamp Series.

  • Knowledge Session: Who Was Lena Horne? I Am Hip-Hop 2015-07-07 Rishma Dhaliwal Lena Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was born in Brook­lyn, New York, on June 30, 1917. Her father, Edwin “Teddy” Horne, who worked in the gambling trade, left the fam­ily when Lena was three. Her mother, Edna, was an act­ress…

  • The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family Atlantic Monthly Press February 2016 336 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8021-2454-8 Gail Lumet Buckley Gail Lumet Buckley tells the story of her dynamic family during the most crucial century in African American history In The Black Calhouns, Gail Lumet Buckley—daughter of actress…

  • Who’s Black, Who’s Not, and Who Cares? Uptown Magazine 2011-11-02 Yaba Blay, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania “What are you?” It’s a question I have never been asked. I am Black. Period. The color of my skin is reflective of my Ghanaian ancestry and by its dark tone, everyone I encounter…