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

Obviously, this was the Depression, as you mentioned.

And that led to them relocating from a fairly nice house initially to the Bronx and then to Harlem and trying to figure out how to make ends meet with both Edna and Mike losing their jobs in this time.

Yeah, absolutely.

So she's 16 years old.

Neither her mother or her stepfather have a job.

So she secures an audition at Harlem's legendary Cotton Club.

Yes.

And this is also important to say, much to the disapproval of her middle-class family.

This was not someone who was raised the way she was.

Much to her disapproval of her gambling father and her mother, who's there five seconds a year.

Okay.

So her mother approved.

Her mother thought this was phenomenal.

She saw an opportunity to kind of build her own success through Nina.

Oh, stage mom.

No!

I think it's worth saying that the Cotton Club, although kind of legendary to us now, was a really complicated space.

It didn't allow black patrons in.

And for example, the black musicians and chorus people were not allowed to use the bathrooms.

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