France is honouring the US-born 20th Century singer and activist Josephine Baker with a place in the Pantheon on Tuesday. She’s the first black woman to be remembered in the resting place of ...

Fearless and Free,” recorded between 1926 and 1949, is full of heroism, glamour, righteous anger — and things you wish you could unsee.

France is honouring the US-born 20th Century singer and activist Josephine Baker with a place in the Pantheon on Tuesday. She’s the first black woman to be remembered in the resting place of ...

She escaped the racism of her native America to find global fame in France. Her 1949 memoir, published for the first time in English, captures Baker’s joyful voice ...

Now they finally come to the UK in Fearless and Free Twenty-seven books solely devoted to Josephine Baker are listed in ... entertainer who conquered Paris in the 1920s and later became a wartime ...

In 1926, Josephine Baker was approached by French ... the Plantation Club during the Harlem Renaissance. In 1925, Baker traveled to Paris, where she danced in the musical La Revue Nègre.

Josephine Baker achieved fame and fortune through her sizzlingly exotic, erotic performances. Starting life on the American Vaudeville circuit, success takes Josephine to Paris where her semi-nude ...