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Paris is celebrating Josephine Baker with a new mural honoring her legacy. The artwork was unveiled Saturday in northeast ...
Paris is reviving the spirit of U.S.-French entertainer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker with a new mural. Fifty ...
Dark and sleek as can be, the classic ultra-short cut was worn slicked down against Palmer's head and featured a number of ...
Brian Baker, son of U.S.-French entertainer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker, stands in front of a new mural of his ...
“Algospeak” is a fascinating blend of etymology, psychology, cultural analysis and first-person perspective. The book acts as ...
Wearing sequins, rhinestones, pearls — and sometimes nothing — Josephine Baker lit up the stage. She danced her way out of abject poverty in St. Louis into the grand orchestra halls and cabarets of ...
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 ...
Fifty years after her death, Baker now gazes out over a diverse, bustling neighborhood of northeast Paris, thanks to urban artist FKDL and a street art festival aimed at promoting community spirit.
“Josephine Baker was known as the Black Venus,” Williams said on the red carpet, explaining that she was trying to channel the dancer’s “elegance.” ...
According to reports, FKA Twigs is the top choice to play Josephine Baker in a new biopic directed by Maimouna Doucouré.
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, bustling ...