dubois and paul robison.e they were actually her grandparents' friends, the relationships were more dutiful than political. hollywood communists had, indeed, wooed lena, but paul robison, in fact, warned her against them m. in reality, lena was one of the luckier blacklisted artists. although banned from network tv for ten years, her nightclub career and international touring career never suffered. in the days before tv kept people home at night, she remained one of the highest paid performers, nightclub performers in the world. by 1957 she was cleared by the blacklisters and starring in jamaica, a hit broadway musical. broadway, by the way, basically ignored the blacklist. lena wasn't the only black calhoun to be suspect. frank horne came under his own blacklisting cloud in washington where he was investigated by the civil service loyalty board as a founder of the national committee against discrimination in housing. supposedly ferreting out un-americanism, blacklisting was also an excuse for racism and anti

direct or of the big brothers and being sisters federation where she was a mentor to the very young paul robison and an appointee to the brooklyn victory committee. the war years were cora's slow years. the former suffragist really became an activist in the 1920s after she got the vote. meanwhile, in 1919 she made her granddaughter, lena horne, the child of her second son known as ted, a lifetime member of the naacp at the age of 2. [laughter] cora was a busy woman, and edwin horne was a successful man, but they had an unhappy marriage. handsome and debonair, edwin was known to have a lady friend in manhattan. his son, my grandfather ted, also had an unhelp marriage despite baby lena. both of my mother's young parents decentered her before she was 2. -- deserted her before 2. after making a small killing on the black sox scandal of 1919, ted horne left his job to pursue easy money on the fringes of the rackets while lena's mother, a member of an old black brooklyn family originally from massachusetts, left to pursue an unsuccessful theatrical career. until she was 6 years old, little lena horne

the african and african-american studies program allows students to use the paul robison room for theirweekly meetings, beautiful room, a beautiful sight to see students talking about these things in a room named of paul robe bestson. the student senate before saiaa's emergence they passed a resolution condemning workers and university staff for going on strike because it was an inconvenience to students. these show you how conservative this university was. that even the senate was passing these types of resolutions. just like semester they passed a resolution to abolish columbus day and replace it with indigenous peoples day and that's a really big deal. [applause] >> and the these are just few of the very small instances of how we were able to change campus climate through palestine work and wasn't always about palestine. i think it's important to note that. now, thinking about this i'd like us to envision all of us as part of a larger effort to reclaim space from majorammized communities and those who have been pushed to fringe. if we come at these challenges 0 that we're phasing wit

dubois and paul robison.e they were actually her grandparents' friends, the relationships were more dutiful than political. hollywood communists had, indeed, wooed lena, but paul robison, in fact, warned her against them m. in reality, lena was one of the luckier blacklisted artists. although banned from network tv for ten years, her nightclub career and international touring career never suffered. in the days before tv kept people home at night, she remained one of the highest paid performers, nightclub performers in the world. by 1957 she was cleared by the blacklisters and starring in jamaica, a hit broadway musical. broadway, by the way, basically ignored the blacklist. lena wasn't the only black calhoun to be suspect. frank horne came under his own blacklisting cloud in washington where he was investigated by the civil service loyalty board as a founder of the national committee against discrimination in housing. supposedly ferreting out un-americanism, blacklisting was also an excuse for racism and anti