“Josephine Baker was a trendsetter and the trend, in my opinion, was Blackness,” award-winning ballet soloist Gabe Stone Sheyer said poignantly about the legacy of the renowned dancer 100 years after ...

It was the most risqué act in Paris. Every night at the Folies-Bergère in Montmartre, Josephine Baker performed an erotic dance wearing nothing more than a miniskirt of artificial bananas. No female ...

Josephina Baker, AKA “La Baker,” was a notorious black performer who left the United States because of oppressive segregation. Claiming France as her new Motherland, Baker performed her signature ...

Actress Paula Patton gets into why she decided to create a series about jazz singer Josephine Baker and how she became a trendsetter. She also explains how she wants to tell the icon's story. John ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Editor's note: Story has been updated to note that Josephine Baker's body will remain interred in Monaco. Josephine Baker got her ...

Josephine Baker made her debut as “Black Venus” in Berlin in 1926, performing the Charleston at the Nelson Theater on Kurfürstendamm. “Berlin feels great!,” she later enthused. “A pure triumph. They ...

Missouri-born cabaret dancer, French World War II spy, and civil rights activist, Josephine Baker, will be honored with a distinction never before done in French history. Last Tuesday, President ...

*Paula Patton has optioned film and television rights to Sherry Jones’ biographical novel “Josephine Baker’s Last Dance.” The actress will reportedly star in and produce an adaptation about the jazz ...

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 ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. “Josephine Baker's Last Dance” A novel by Sherry Jones Published by Gallery Books, 365 pages, $16 (trade paperback) Josephine ...