Wearing sequins, rhinestones, pearls — and sometimes nothing — Josephine Baker lit up the stage. She danced her way out of abject poverty in St. Louis into the grand orchestra halls and ...

You march to your own drummer and as in the new memoir, “Fearless and Free: A Memoir” by Josephine Baker, translated the French by Anam Zafar and Sophie Lewis, foreword by Ijeoma Oluo ...

An agronomist who studied in Belgium, he enjoys strong popularity in the slums of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, thanks to his association with the exiled leader. Some believe that he will pave the ...

The third episode of the new series, Makeup: A Glamourous History delves into how Josephine Baker revolutionised ideas about tanned skin and beauty culture in the 1920s. Dancer, singer ...

The life of Josephine Baker is a dazzling rags to riches story of a musical icon, stage sensation and heroine of the French Resistance who took 20th Century Europe by storm – think Janelle Monae ...

Born in St. Louis in 1906, Josephine Baker achieved only moderate success in the United States but became an international superstar after moving to France in the early 1920s. She starred ...