The famed entertainer-activist and French Resistance hero will be the first Black woman to receive the honor, 46 years after her death in 1975. One of the most pioneering Black entertainers in history ...
Exclusive: Chez Josephine was a piece of famed performer Josephine Baker’s story that is not widely known, but for which, a quiet war was waged and lost In artistic Montmartre, Paris, a stone’s throw ...
PARIS (AP) — Paris is reviving the spirit of U.S.-French entertainer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker with a new mural. Fifty years after her death, Baker now gazes out over a diverse ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The narrative thrust is a simple set up of Josephine Baker after a show during her ...
Josephine Baker was a world-renowned Black singer, dancer, and clown. During the 1920s and 1930s, she was the highest-paid entertainer in Europe. Her success in Vaudeville during the Harlem ...
“Before Ella, Tina, Billie, or Beyoncé – there was Josephine!” shouts The District Theatre notice for the return engagement of Tymisha Harris’ original salute to international star Josephine Baker, ...