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.

American-French entertainer and civil rights pioneer Josephine Baker is being memorialized in Paris with a new mural, fifty years after her passing. Through the efforts of urban artist FKDL and a ...

Josephine Baker was born Freda Josephine McDonald in 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri. She started work cleaning houses at age eight. At nine, she attended her first live theater performance.

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 ...

“Josephine Baker’s celebrity was global, which meant that practically anyone might want to pay a visit,” Lewis tells us. It made for an ideal intelligence hub. The toll her illness had taken ...

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.

Josephine Baker — shown here receiving the Legion D’Honneur and the Croix de Guerre on August 19, 1961 — would also receive admission into the Pantheon in 2021, one of only five women to ...

Josephine Baker is perhaps best remembered as a glamorous showgirl in 1920s and '30s Paris who mothballed her skimpy costumes to serve in the French Resistance before becoming an international ...

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 ...

Josephine Baker: The Hungry Heart has it all—Paris in the 1920s, crown princes, precious furs, World War II espionage, and the unforgettable story of an American pioneer.