The “Incomparable” Lena Horne 1917-2010
2010-05-10
We mourn this truly “remarkable” human being. Encouraged by her mother, Horne joined the NAACP at a young age and later the National Council of Negro Women. She refused to perform during WWII for segregated audiences and later joined Eleanor Roosevelt to abolish lynching. In the 1950s, she was black-listedContinue Reading