Dr. Hannah Tericium Robbins
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You're Dead to Me · Lena Horne: racism and resilience in the Golden Age of Hollywood · 20 Feb 2026
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Yeah, absolutely.
So she was born on June the 30th, 1917, to what was a middle class black family.
Her father, Edwin, was kind of a Renaissance man.
He spoke six languages.
He owned a restaurant and a hotel, but eventually he got caught up in gambling and
Her mother, Edna, was an actress.
However, her parents separated when she was three and she went to live with her paternal grandparents.
Lena's grandmother, Cora, was an amazing character.
She was an early feminist.
She was a community activist.
And she took Lena to organising events and meetings alongside her schooling.
She was very restrictive about Lena's original education.
And Lena remembered that as the period of sort of stability and comfort during her childhood, living with her grandparents.
So we're dealing with what we would describe as professionals.
We're thinking about lawyers, people who've been to university, people with considerable wealth.
We're thinking debutante balls.
This is not the sort of stereotypical representation of black life in Harlem that is sometimes attributed to the stories of people who achieve fame as black musicians in the early 20th century.
Well, sort of.
Lena Horne's grandparents, her parental grandparents, were estranged from her parents.
And they took Lena, but had basically no contact with Edna, her mother.
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