Barrier-Breaking Lena Horne Was Raised in Brooklyn

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Lena Horne, the famed jazz singer and actress of the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, grew up in Brooklyn and had strong ties to the borough.

Horne died Sunday at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. She was remarkably honest about saying that the underlying reason for her success was that she was “the kind of black person that white people could accept.”

Read more at the Brooklyn Eagle

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