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Paris is celebrating Josephine Baker with a new mural honoring her legacy. The artwork was unveiled Saturday in northeast ...
A bright mural of Josephine Baker, the Jazz Age entertainer and civil rights activist, now peers over Paris, the city she made her home. The mural comes from urban artist Franck Duval, known as FKDL, ...
Paris is reviving the spirit of U.S.-French entertainer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker with a new mural.
A striking new mural in northeast Paris celebrates Josephine Baker – American-born performer, French Resistance spy, and ...
In Josephine Baker's iconic song, "J'ai Deux Amours," the legendary entertainer describes having two loves, "my country and Paris." Forty-six years after her death, the French capital is giving ...
Entertainer Josephine Baker holds a rhinestone-studded microphone as she performs during her show “Paris, mes Amours” at the Olympia Music Hall in Paris, on May 27, 1957.
Just over 50 years after Josephine Baker's death and nearly four since she was inducted into the Panthéon in Paris, a street ...
Rare archives resolve the puzzle of Josephine Baker's fascinating 50-year-long career. The amazing story of the first Black superstar. Baker, born into poverty in Missouri in 1906, moved to France ...
American-born entertainer Josephine Baker will become the first black woman to be inducted into Paris’ Panthéon memorials for icons of France. Baker, who died in 1975 at 68, was born Freda ...
Even decades after death, Josephine Baker is still making history. The civil rights pioneer and iconic entertainer, who became an international sensation as a head-turning performer in the Paris ...
Images of Josephine Baker are projected on the facade of the Panthéon during her induction ceremony on Nov. 30 in Paris. (Thierry Chesnot/Getty Images) Analysis by Annette Joseph-Gabriel.
Performer Josephine Baker strikes a pose during her Ziegfeld Follies performance of “The Conga” on the Winter Garden Theater stage in New York, Feb. 11, 1936. (AP Photo, File) ...