Music sheds light on injustice and invigorates social movements. Throughout history, artists have utilized their platforms to speak truth to power and to promote philanthropy and create social change.

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Singer and actress Lena Horne began ...

Lena Horne was a movie star, one of the most glamorous women in the world and a stylish singer. She was also important as a civil rights pioneer. In Panama Hattie, the 1942 movie of Cole Porter's ...

Lena Horne, the velvet-voiced chanteuse who went from Cotton Club chorus girl to singing and movie star, famed for her interpretation of “Stormy Weather,” died Sunday in New York. She was 92. Renowned ...

In honor of both Black History Month and Fashion Week, we thought it appropriate to salute Lena Horne, a boundary-busting black performer who also happened to be one of the most glamorous, fashionable ...

The trailblazing singer on the day she (and her father) won over MGM’s Louis B. Mayer and grasped her star-is-born moment, as recounted in Donald Bogle’s new biography. By Donald Bogle In the early ...

“How It Feels to Be Free” is a documentary, at once sobering and enchanting, that interweaves portraits of six legendary stars, all of them Black women (Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone, Diahann ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Lena Calhoun Horne: Arts and ...