via FirstLadyB: Just in time for Black History Month, the USPS has released the Lena Horne stamp. The United States Postal Service (USPS) is celebrating the life and legacy of Lena Horne. She has been chosen as the 41st honoree in the Black Heritage stamp series. The stamp is available in post offices across the country and online in time for February, […]
Rumblings of Alicia Keys possibly playing legendary entertainer Lena Horne in a biopic began circulating back in 2007, when Oprah Winfrey had taken over the languishing project that previously had Janet Jackson attached as the lead. There were reports that Jackson’s 2004 Super Bowl scandal got her dropped from consideration by Horne herself, clearing a […]
A rare unanimous vote in the Senate signaled the passing of a resolution honoring Lena Horne, the esteemed jazz vocalist and civil rights pioneer who died last week at the age of 92
Family and friends gathered at St. Ignatius Loyola to mourn the death of jazz singer and actress Lena Horne.
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 York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York. She was 92 and lived in Manhattan. Her death was […]
