Lena Horne (1917 - 2010)
American singer, actor, dancer
and civil rights activist
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Happy New Year, Everyone! Do you have some favourite women who should be featured as a Beautiful Woman of the Day? Feel free to leave me a l...
Great choice for today!
ReplyDeleteWhat a force for good she was! Gutsy woman, incredibly talented, so very brave.
ReplyDeleteOMG love her!
ReplyDeleteI remember I first saw her in The Wiz and was mesmerized.
XOXO
Someone who goes to the same UU church as me noticed the local post office had a display of posters--representing stamps--that featured Classic Hollywood stars--but the stars were all white! So he arranged for a group of us to pitch in and donate to the post office a stamp/poster of a black movie star of yesteryear. And who was on this stamp/poster? You guessed it. Lena Horne.
ReplyDelete@ Kirk -- Good for you and your UU peeps! And thanks for nominating Lena Horne as Beautiful Woman of the Day too!
DeleteShe was great..I remember her well!!
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