LENA HORNE (Jun. 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was a ground-breaking singer, actress, and civil rights activist. In 1942, she became the first African-American performer to be put under contract by a major studio. Horne died on Sunday,Mothers Day May 9, at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York. Her son Kevin Buckley […]
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African-American Superstar Actress And Singer Lena Horne Dies At 92…
May 10, 2010
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Louis Gossett Jr. Announces His Battle With Prostate Cancer
February 9, 2010[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=lou+gossett+jr&iid=946306″ src=”5/2/1/3/23rd_Israel_Film_c185.jpg?adImageId=10087432&imageId=946306″ width=”234″ height=”297″ /] Academy award winning actor Lou Gossett Jr. has revealed today that he is battling the early stages of Prostate cancer. The 73-year-old actor said that the doctors caught it early, and he is expected to fully recover from it, because of its early detection. Louis Gossett Jr. […]
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