A century before Beyoncé, Josephine Baker became America’s first global pop star. She broke barriers, built a brand, and ...

约瑟芬·贝克，或译乔瑟芬·贝克是移居法国的非裔美国艺人。法国政府宣布，贝克（Joséphine Baker）将于11月30日入葬巴黎先贤祠，她将成为第一位 ...

Last November, Baker was inducted into the French Panthéon, the first woman of color to grace the hallowed monument, among such figures as Victor Hugo and Marie Curie. “Stereotypes, Joséphine ...

Rare archives resolve the puzzle of Josephine Baker's fascinating 50-year-long career. ... For many African-Americans, when she crossed the color line, she didn't cross back.

Josephine Baker arrived in Paris from the slums of St. Louis in 1925 and rose to stardom playing a stereotype of an African “primitive” in “La revue nègre,” a musical act featuring an all ...

Josephine Baker worked as a spy for the resistance, with state secrets neatly hidden in her bra. Performer Josephine Baker was one of the world's most famous women — and an invaluable WWII ...

This exhibit at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures celebrates black film before Hollywood dissolved the color line, showing rarely seen recovered footage and memorabilia from some of the most ...

This Josephine Baker Oral History Has Never Been Published Here. Now We Know Why. “Fearless and Free,” recorded between 1926 and 1949, is full of heroism, glamour, righteous anger — and ...

Did Le Corbusier Fall in Love With Josephine Baker on a Cruise Ship? ... with polychromatic surfaces that introduced color into his until-then largely whitewashed oeuvre.

For 50 years, Baker danced and sang her way up from the slums of St. Louis all the way up to the great stages of Europe. Legend has it that Josephine Baker received more than 1,500 marriage proposals.

While the 2025 Met Gala is celebrating the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new costume exhibit on Black Dandyism—spotlighting men’s fashion—several stars on the red carpet honored a female ...

The story of Josephine Baker is one for the books–and the small screen. The entertainer, spy, activist and all-around it-girl will be at the center of an upcoming series, De La Resistance. 8x ...