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When Horne was five, she was sent to live in Georgia.

Horne was raised mainly by her grandparents, Cora Calhoun and Edwin Horne. Edna's maternal grandmother, Amelie Louise Ashton, was from modern Senegal. Her mother, Edna Louise Scottron, was an actress with a black theatre troupe and traveled extensively. (1893–1970), at one time owner of a hotel and restaurant, was a gambler-he and "his partner, the gambler and philanthropist Gus Greenlee, owned the Belmont Hotel on Wylie Avenue and ran the numbers racket in the Hill"- who left the family when Lena was three years old and moved to an upper-middle-class African American community in the Hill District community of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where Lena came to live with him aged 18 until her marriage the next year. Her father, Edwin Fletcher "Teddy" Horne Jr. Calhoun family his nephew, Dr Andrew Bonaparte Calhoun, "owned the slaves whose descendants include. She was reportedly descended from the John C. She belonged to the well-educated, upper stratum of black New Yorkers at the time.

Both sides of her family were African American. Late last year, Brooklynite Debbie Zhang’s story of adopting her cat, Hotaru, from the BBAWC captured the hearts of the nonprofit’s leaders, who awarded the organization with $35,000 - $25,000 for Zhang’s story, and an additional $10,000 because of the high number of people who submitted their stories of adopting from BBAWC: 97.Lena Horne was born in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. This isn’t the first time the organization has been funded by Petco Love.

It’s since moved to a bigger home on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, where it provides temporary shelter for kitties up for adoption, houses pet-education workshops and educates locals about how to properly care for critters in the area.īBAWC also launched a low-cost veterinary clinic in 2020, followed by a low-cost surgery clinic in 2021, both intended to assist low-income cat owners across the five boroughs. The feline-focused café quickly gained notoriety for allowing guests to play with cats and order a coffee - all in the same place. Since the opening of the Brooklyn Cat Café on Atlantic Avenue in 2016, over 70,000 people have visited the volunteer-run site, which serves as BBAWC’s adoption and rescue space.