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 podcast

And her mother was really unhappy with the sort of straight-laced, middle-class education, not exposing her to the arts that she felt Lena was getting.

So essentially, she kidnapped her on the street and took her on the road as a touring actress.

But actually, she left Lena with her friends, with other carers.

She sent her to stay with her brother, Frank, rather than actually keeping Lena with her the whole time.

And eventually, when she was 12, Lena was returned to Brooklyn to her grandparents in New York.

So wait, she picked her up off the street at what age?

This was, I think, six.

Yeah, absolutely.

She picked her up when she was young.

And left her with everybody else but her grandparents.

And that caused a really complicated relationship between her and her mother.

She learned a lot about the arts, though.

Yeah, so he got, well, Edwin didn't really like working and he discovered gambling.

So this is it.

Sometimes he was extremely successful and sometimes he was extremely not successful.

And so that sort of polarity meant that he stepped out of her life for most of her formative years.

And she said later on that she only really knew her father as an adult and he was not closely connected with her grandparents.

So when her grandmother died, she was forced to go back to living with her mother and her new stepfather, Mike.

And she said that she couldn't really relate to this white man that her mother had married.

And they fell on fairly hard times.

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