but Lena Horne longed to return to her budding career as a singer and actress, and the marriage soon ended. Gail’s brother, Teddy, stayed in Pittsburgh at her father’s insistence, while she ...

Lena Horne was born into an upper-middle class black family in Brooklyn, New York on June 30th 1917. Her mother moved her into the south, and deep into poverty. But at age 16, she moved back to ...