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Paris is celebrating Josephine Baker with a new mural honoring her legacy. The artwork was unveiled Saturday in northeast ...
Josephine Baker has been brought back to life and memorialized in Paris with a new mural, fifty years after her passing.
Just over 50 years after Josephine Baker's death and nearly four since she was inducted into the Panthéon in Paris, a street ...
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 ...
By the end of World War II, however, Baker had transformed herself into a regal activist for racial justice, an extraordinary reinvention that, as Hanna Diamond relates in “Josephine Baker’s Secret ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
It's June 3, 2017, and it's Josephine Baker's 111th birthday. We are celebrating the St. Louis-born Creole Goddess with this tribute.
Josephine Baker (played by Tymisha Harris in "Josephine") was well-known as a burlesque performer. What wasn't readily known: She was also a spy.