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Lena Horne was born in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn [1] to Edwin and Edna Horne on June 30, 1917. [2] Both sides of her family were biracial African Americans. [citation needed] She belonged to the well-educated upper stratum of Black New Yorkers at the time.
The reason I say it’s the story, since each of these entertainers occupies a unique place, is that the documentary, in the very structure of its telling, reveals how all of them built upon what ...
The life of entertainer and activist Lena Horne is to be turned into a limited series by Showtime with Alex Kurtzman and Horne’s granddaughter Jenny Lumet. The ViacomCBS-backed cable network is ...
Pocahontas (US: / ˌ p oʊ k ə ˈ h ɒ n t ə s /, UK: / ˌ p ɒ k-/; born Amonute, [1] also known as Matoaka and Rebecca Rolfe; c. 1596 – March 1617) was a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia.
Pocahontas is a 1995 American animated musical historical drama film loosely based on the life of Powhatan woman Pocahontas and the arrival of English settlers from the Virginia Company. The film romanticizes Pocahontas's encounter with John Smith and her legendary saving of his life.
Two accounts of Ortiz's eleven years as a captive, differing in details, offer a story of Ortiz being sentenced to death by a Native American chief two or three times, saved each time by the intervention of a daughter (and possibly other female relatives) of the chief, and finally escaping to a neighboring chiefdom, whose chief sheltered him. [a]
The book is split into two different parts. The first part primarily speaks of Pocahontas' childhood, her experiences and reasonings for interacting/not interacting with European colonizers when she did, and the relationship between the Powhatan people and the Europeans as well as what let to Pocahontas' capture in 1613. [1]
Harry & Lena is a 1970 studio album issued by RCA Records by Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne. In 1970, Belafonte Enterprises produced an ABC television special featuring Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne. The hour special titled Harry & Lena, For The Love Of Life was broadcast on March 22, 1970, featuring solo and duet performances.