Hauser & Wirth Monaco is exhibiting a tribute by the renowned sculptor and poet Barbara Chase-Riboud to the legendary Josephine Baker (1905 – 1975), whose transatlantic life mirrors her own.

A Black woman will, for the first time, join other luminaries interred in France's Pantheon. That woman is entertainer Josephine Baker, and the honor will take place Tuesday. But critics in France ...

Before she was a legend, Josephine Baker was a little girl from Missouri who loved to make funny faces. Teachers chided her for this habit; Baker paid them little heed. “Our faces aren’t made ...

On Thursday, March 27, the French department hosted a discussion on Josephine Baker, an American-born entertainer and cultural icon who became renowned for her work in France. The event featured a ...

Josephine Baker (1906-1975) found fame in France in the 1920s as the American expat who danced in “a mere belt of bananas.” Ernest Hemingway described her as “the most sensational woman anyone ever ...

Josephine Ann “Jo Ann” Baker, 86, of De Soto died March 14, 2025, at Mercy Hospital Jefferson in Crystal City. Mrs. Baker worked for the International Shoe Co., as a cafeteria worker for the De Soto ...

Anti-immigration policies threaten a key source of health care labor for nursing facilities and home health agencies that ...

And then there are the American creators famed for their work produced in Paris, including Faith Ringgold, Josephine Baker ...

Fifty years after leaving this world, Josephine Baker (1906-1975) is once again shaking her bananas in Paris, as Josephine Baker - Le Musical comes to the Théâtre Bobino. It's the same stage where ...

The 'Paris Noir' exhibition at the Pompidou Centre brings together works by African, American, Caribbean and Afro-descendant artists who lived and worked in Paris between the 1950s and the end of ...

Alanys Ortiz reads Josephine Senek's cues before she speaks. Josephine, who lives with a rare and debilitating genetic condition, fidgets her fingers when she's tired and bites the air when something ...