Boston.com
Lena Horne, the sultry singer who died at 92, will forever occupy a unique position in America’s racial history. A great beauty and bullet of talent in an era when black people weren’t allowed to be beautiful stars, she persevered, gaining a foothold because of her light skin. “I’m the kind of black that white people could accept,’’ she once said. While living on the color line in segregated Hollywood was the loneliest of callings, she fought back with her fierce sense of identity as a black woman and leading lady.
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