Lena Horne was a groundbreaking singer, actress, and civil rights activist who starred in the musical Stormy Weather and became the first Black woman to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio. Despite this achievement, racism severely shaped her career. She was often filmed in separate scenes so that theaters in the segregated South could easily cut her out, and she was strictly forbidden from having romantic scenes with white actors. “I was a butterfly pinned to a column,” she