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

But it's also of survival, right?

And, you know, she gets a Kennedy Center honor quite soon.

After this, she's recognized by the NAACP.

She's doing, still recording quite late into her life as well.

So she kind of takes on this presence of,

taking her experience from when she was working in film and from what went on in the 50s and supporting all these young artists, talking to them about film conditions, helping them figure out their working contracts.

So she's both off stage or off screen, becomes a sort of mentor figure to various people.

I mentioned she doesn't win that Tony Award.

diane carroll does in four years time and credits lena horn with helping her find her way in film and on the stage so we have this like double edge she's still this amazing public figure but she is actually really thinking about how to unravel the industry behind the scenes as well

yeah exactly and I helped everyone and yeah I was a communist and then I wasn't yeah I mean she was born during segregation before any woman could vote she was mentored by Billie Holiday and Diana Washington she marched on Washington she sang with Michael Jackson and she lived to see Barack Obama become president so I think it's a remarkable lifespan but as you say she also died rich and I hope happy which is unusual in this she had two husbands she was no longer with so I'm guessing she was pretty happy

So Lena Horne relentlessly talked about the loneliness and isolation that she felt at MGM and that it made her seem like she didn't want to be in community with other Black performers.

She came to believe that she was chosen by movie executives so that they could capitalise on her perceived racial ambiguity.

And that made her work and the profile of her success understandably contentious for a really long time.

And yet the peaks of her career, and I would say her story more generally, were always in community with other Black artists.

Meanwhile, she balanced pouring her fortune into grassroots movements.

She got involved in national organising and she was essential in helping up and coming black performers make choices about their contracts, their working conditions based on her experience.

Lena Horne became a star because she was crowded by support and whatever storm she was weathering.

Unlike many others, she was willing to admit her mistakes and to grow intellectually in public.

Her story shows the appeal of having had a figurehead, but also the limitations of having one person embody such a diverse community of people.

And Horne really tried to pay that investment back to others, but while making the most of the platform she was given.

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