Remebering Lena Horne

Lena Horne was born in Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.Reported to be descended from the John C. Calhoun family, both sides of her family were a mixture of African American, European American, and Native American descent and each belonged to what W. E. B. Du Bois called "The Talented Tenth.Horne was long involved with the Civil Rights movement. In 1941, she sang at Cafe Society and worked with Paul Robeson. During World War II, when entertaining the troops for the USO, she refused to perform "for segregated audiences or for groups in which German POWs were seated in front of African American servicemen". Horne had a son Edwin Jones (February 1940 - September 12, 1970) but unfortanatly died of kidney disease that same year Horne's father Edwin "Teddy" Horne died at age 78 on April 18, 1970. Mrs. Horne also had a daughter, Gail Lumet Buckley who she was survived by also with many granchildren.                      

Lena Horne Died at the age of 92 being born on June 30,1917 and being laid to rest on May 9, 2010. Mrs. Horne was my hero, my inspiration and she has done so many things and to hear that she had died is devistating. Mrs.Horne is known for her many roles, songs, and what she has done for her community, the one thing movie that was my favorite was The Wiz that was my favorite movie of her's.

"I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst kind of acceptance because it was never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked."-Lena Horne

The Future

The Future In My Eyes-

For years, Inquiring minds have been imagining what the world will look like in the not-too-distant future, and, as you’re no doubt aware, our brains have a knack for envisioning more than our feeble hands can produce. The future will bring so much diffrent things like clothes, shoes, cars, computers, cities, and whatever else in 2020 I hope the world looks better then it does today . People think we're not going to live until 2020 but belive me I truly think we are. Even if they say we aren't and they make movies of it like 2012, they say we might live under water or in Mars. I don't care where we live I just want to be alive to see what will or might happen.

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The Past of Fashion

Fashion has certainly come a long way from the top hats and petticoats era of the past. Clothes today have become a great combination of aesthetics and function. One might think that because of the progress that we have maid in the area of clothing, we would not look back at our past. Reality, as always, has a way of denying what we all think. Today, we all see a resurgence of popular fashion styles from the past. It seems that old school fashion is coming back.http://streetknowledge.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/andrea3000.jpg

Diffrent styles are coming back but in a diffrent way as the years come it slowly comes or just kids on the street make it seem like old school fashion is on its way back.

A Never Ending Life... Dedicated to my Great Grandfather

 A life is never ending my time is tonight its the life time...A loving family and loving friends are here 2 be with me threw the pain and threw the sorrow I am here with the never ending road with life... time has passed by days and nights have gone away I dont know when that road is gonna end 4 me but I know their are people around who will go with me down that road threw the bumps,cracks, and holes...There are things that I will take with me and there are things that I will leave here... I will say and not think that im not gonna leave but that time will come and it will be true 2 me... time has passed by days and nights have gone away I dont know when that road is gonna end 4 me but I know its there just waiting and waiting but I wont let it get 2 me...Its that time I can just feel it and they can see it I love them so much and thank them 4 being there with me and taking me threw all the steps... I loved that I made them laugh and that they made me laugh 2... its time that last breath that last night he's taking me but I know I will leave happy and greatful...Time has passed by days and nights, months and years have gone away I dont know when that road is gonna end 4 me but I know that the road down life left me some great memorys with my siblings, children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and other family members and friends... My last breath, my last saying I LOVE YOU ALL...

In Loving Memory

~R.I.P~

Robert M. Johnson

1931-2010