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Lena Horne

I Need The New Lena Horne Forever Stamp!

February 5, 2018 by afrobella 1 Comment

I Need The New Lena Horne Forever Stamp!

I’m pretty much at the point where I buy stamps once a year — and that’s in February, just in time for the Black Heritage stamps. I buy a whole sheet and I let go of them slowly. I’ve had (and maybe still have a couple) Maya Angelou, Ray Charles, Jimi Hendrix, Sarah Vaughn… the…

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Filed Under: Pop Culture Tagged With: Black History, forever stamps, Lena Horne, Pop Culture

Defining Moments in Black Beauty History – The TV Edition

February 10, 2014 by afrobella 12 Comments

Defining Moments in Black Beauty History – The TV Edition

In 2013 I got ambitious for Black History Month, and decided to kick off a month-long series on black beauty history. I titled it 28 Moments in Black Beauty History, intending there to be a new post every day. Things were going great at the beginning. I wrote informative, research-heavy posts about Josephine Baker and…

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Filed Under: Beauty, Featured, Hair, Issues, Life, Pop Culture, Style Tagged With: beauty icons, beauty influences, Black Beauty, black beauty history, celebrities, chaka khan, Denise Huxtable, Diahann Carroll, diana ross, Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Life, Lisa Bonet, naomi campbell, Pop Culture

Lena Horne, Auntie In My Head

August 7, 2009 by afrobella 30 Comments

Sometimes, randomly I’ll wonder what she’s up to. Is she in good health? Is she still lucid? Is she surrounded by people who love her and care for her? I hope and pray she is. Lena Horne is a living legend who has retreated completely from the spotlight. She turned 92 on June 30, and…

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Filed Under: Pop Culture Tagged With: Beautifully Aging Bellas, Lena Horne, Makeup Muses, muppet show, Randomness, sesame street

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