In recognition of her acting career and public service, the Screen Actors Guild presented Black with a life achievement award in 2005.
Alex Pascall, broadcaster, journalist and oral historian, who presented Black Londoners on BBC Radio London and had known Howe since the late 1960s, described him as "undoubtedly one of our leading social architects".
The theater's artistic director, Susan Feldman, spotted it at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which also presented "Black Watch," the hit docudrama about a Scottish regiment that returns to St . Anns for a second run in October.
An evening camp in a natural bowl, eating a birthday dish of barbecued quail, was topped by an undamaged and proudly presented black forest gateaux served under the gaze of a herd of wild camels.
Greenspan's services alone have presented Black with a $4m bill, while estimates for the total defence costs - Black employed a 'dream team' of America's top criminal lawyers - vary from $25m to $70m.
Lena Horne, 92, an electrifying performer who shattered racial boundaries by changing the way Hollywood presented black women and who enjoyed a six-decade singing career on stage, television and in films, died of a heart ailment May 9 at a hospital in New York.
