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Lena Horne

Huffington Post Readers Choose 10 of the World's Most Beautiful Older Women

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 08.13.2009 | Style

Read More: Aging, Beauty, Lauren Hutton, Meryl Streep, Julie Christie, Catherine Deneuve, Beverly Johnson, Lena Horne, Vanessa Redgrave, Tina Turner, Jamie Lee Curtis, Raquel Welch, Slideshow, World's Most Beautiful Older Women, Style News
Lesley M. M. Blume

Two months ago, we ran a feature titled Six of the World's Most Beautiful Older Women. To our amazement, nearly 900 comments poured in and the piece ...

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Harlem Chic

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 07.27.2009 | New York

Read More: Harlem, Danny Glover, Cotton Club, Slyvia Waters, Albert Maysles, Londel’s Supper Club, Lena Horne, Body, Mojo, Communist Party, Philip Maysles, Tamara Tunie, Marcia Gay Harden, Food, Bette Midler, George Faison, Chez Lucienne, Hudson River Grill, Native, Tally, Manhattan, New York, New York City, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

Seeing celebrities, the Governor, Danny Glover, movie maker Al Maysles and his son Philip, and George Faison, acclaimed and beautiful actresses Marcia Gay Harden, Tamara Tunie, and Bette Midler , people who, despite their fame, live or work in Harlem, is no big thing.

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Culture Zohn Off the C(h)uff: James Gavin and the Stormy Weather of Lena Horne

Patricia Zohn | Posted 06.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Angela Bassett, Cotton Club, Oprah Winfrey, Whitney Houston, Halle Berry, Orson Welles, Artie Shaw, Janet Jackson, Lennie Hayton, Alicia Keys, Mya, Lena Horne, Naacp, Barack Obama, Cafe Society, New York News
Patricia Zohn

2009-06-22-zpull.jpg Stormy Weather tells how Horne has been an emblem of the complicated equation of race and talent, and a beacon to Alicia Keys, Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Janet Jackson, and Halle Berry.

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Touring Harlem, Lost and Found

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 06.10.2009 | Style

Read More: Abyssinian Baptist Church, Harlem, Church, Lena-Horne, Count Basie, Archer Milton Huntington, Drugs, Hispanics, New York, Thelma Golden, Mexican Immigrants, Apollo Theater, Tourism, Lincoln Kirstein, Rezoning, Mrs. Astor, Jazz, Sex, 555 Edgecombe Ave., Duke Ellington, Malcolm X, Anna Vaughn Huntington, Synagouge, Goya, Lana Turner, Studio Museum in Harlem, Black Culture, High-Priced Condominiums, Paul Robeson, Cabcalloway, Domenican, Style News
Michael Henry Adams

Are you wistful for that old-time Harlem?

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"Gay, or Straight, Black, or White: Love is Love, Right is Right!" Right?

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Civil Liberties, Lesbian, George W. Bush, Gays and Lesbians, Harry-Belafonte, African-American History, Clarence Thomas, Civil Rights, Edna Thomas, Gay Rights, Walter Nagel, Tiger Woods, Racism, Frederick Douglass, African-American Issues, Jasmyne Cannick, Sammy Davis Jr., Phillip Johnson, Pearl Bailey, Olivia Whyndham, Michael Bloomberg, Walter-White, Mildred Loving Interracial Marriage, Lena Horne, Interacial Relationships, Interacial-Sex, Interracial Marriage, Jimmie Daniels, Gays in the Military, Seal, Martin Luther King, Jack Johnson, Homophobia, California Gay Marriage Ban, Bayard Rustin, Gay Marriage, Gay Issues, Sidney Poitier, Living News
Michael Henry Adams

Many activist gays have readily embraced the notion that "Queers" are "today's African Americans," with marriage equality an issue comparable to earlier more bitter struggles for civil rights.

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