'Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne' by James Gavin reveals a woman whose life reflects the civil rights struggles of the times. According to James Gavin's new biography, “Stormy Weather: The Life ...

Lena Horne knew how to make an entrance. For her debut on L.A.’s Sunset Strip in January 1942, she donned a simple white gown and, without an introduction, stepped from darkness into a single ...

Lena Horne, the jazz singer and actress who became a star even while suffering the indignities of racism, died Sunday at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. She was 92. A hospital spokeswoman, Gloria Chin, ...

Her role in Stormy Weather and her Broadway show Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music. Dionne Warwick on Lena Horne and her musical influences Dionne Warwick discusses Lena Horne and her other musical ...

Born into the civil rights struggle, the actress and singer had a long and remarkable history as an activist who sacrificed for the struggle against segregation and economic injustice. By signing up, ...

THE FABLED but reclusive Lena Horne was 92 years old recently so we still don’t know how this legendary star feels about James Gavin’s new book on her life, “Stormy Weather.” But I did give the ...

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The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights With One African American Family is more than the biography of entertainment trailblazer and civil rights icon Lena Horne. Gail Lumet Buckley, ...

The sale is the priciest so far this year. The four-story apartment is in a new, sold-out condo, the Bellemont, at 1165 Madison Avenue. By Vivian Marino Ms. Horne, who died in 2010, lived in two ...

Toward the end of her very full life, Lena Horne suggested to a PBS interviewer that, after decades of struggling to define her image as an artist and a black woman, she finally had seized possession ...