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A bright mural of Josephine Baker, the Jazz Age entertainer and civil rights activist, now peers over Paris, the city she made her home. The mural comes from urban artist Franck Duval, known as FKDL, ...
Paris is celebrating Josephine Baker with a new mural honoring her legacy. The artwork was unveiled Saturday in northeast ...
American-French entertainer and civil rights pioneer Josephine Baker is being memorialized in Paris with a new mural, fifty years after her passing. Through the efforts of urban artist FKDL and a ...
Paris is reviving the spirit of U.S.-French entertainer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker with a new mural.
Just over 50 years after Josephine Baker's death and nearly four since she was inducted into the Panthéon in Paris, a street ...
Entertainer Josephine Baker holds a rhinestone-studded microphone as she performs during her show “Paris, mes Amours” at the Olympia Music Hall in Paris, on May 27, 1957.
American-born entertainer Josephine Baker will become the first black woman to be inducted into Paris’ Panthéon memorials for icons of France. Baker, who died in 1975 at 68, was born Freda ...
In Josephine Baker's iconic song, "J'ai Deux Amours," the legendary entertainer describes having two loves, "my country and Paris." Forty-six years after her death, the French capital is giving ...
It's June 3, 2017, and it's Josephine Baker's 111th birthday. We are celebrating the St. Louis-born Creole Goddess with this tribute.
Josephine Baker (played by Tymisha Harris in "Josephine") was well-known as a burlesque performer. What wasn't readily known: She was also a spy.
Images of Josephine Baker are projected on the facade of the Panthéon during her induction ceremony on Nov. 30 in Paris. (Thierry Chesnot/Getty Images) Analysis by Annette Joseph-Gabriel.