Actor and singer Josephine Baker spent her life resisting racial discrimination at home and abroad. During World War II, she bravely used her fame to fight back against the Nazis. Supreme Court ...

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Josephine Baker is seen as a pivotal figure both for representation in cinema and the civil rights movement. American born, but spending most of her life in Paris, she performed in the music halls ...

Author Jennifer Moorman reflects on how she learned to pivot, in advance of her new novel 'The Vanishing of Josephine Reynolds ... dream of being a professional singer, traveling across the ...

Often called the Beyoncé of the 1920s, Josephine Baker lived a dozen lives in her time on earth. The African American singer made France her home, rising to stardom for her legendary dance moves ...

AFP via Getty Images As Josephine Baker moved through international checkpoints in Spain and Morocco, the dancer and singer teased the agents who asked to see her papers, saying they just wanted h ...

A dancer, jazz singer, actress and a comedian all in one, Josephine Baker was the first black female entertainer to break through racial prejudice in Europe and the United States. Her acts were both ...

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Hair styles seemingly inspired by the singer Josephine Baker were a theme of the night. By Alisha Haridasani Gupta There were slicked-down curls, dramatic swoops and sculpted waves that contrasted ...

Josephine Baker had shot to fame in the 1920s in Paris as a dancer, singer and actress. She also worked as a spy during the Second World War and was a fierce civil rights activist. By the 1950s ...