Gail Lumet Buckley, the daughter of the late Lena Horne and a journalist and author, who wrote two books about the history of her Black middle-class family, died on July 18. She was 86.

In this unedited interview, American singer, dancer and actress Lena Horne (pictured above in 1942) discusses her rise to fame and a career that began in the 1930s at Cafe Society and The Cotton Club.