A rare, intimate picture of Baker emerges in her memoir, Fearless and Free, originally published in France in 1949 and now ...

Often called the Beyoncé of the 1920s, Josephine Baker lived a dozen lives in her time on earth. The African American singer ...

In 1926, Josephine Baker was approached by French journalist Marcel Sauvage about writing a memoir. Then 20 years old, the ...

Baker was born Freda Josephine McDonald on 6 June 1906 in St. Louis Missouri. Baker experienced precarity throughout her early childhood ... throughout her storied life. Chiquita the cheetah ...

The life of Josephine Baker is a dazzling rags to riches story ... offers crucial insights into early Chinese civilisation. Expert says the Fed's 2 percent inflation target remains unattainable ...

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

Now they finally come to the UK in Fearless and Free Twenty-seven books solely devoted to Josephine Baker are listed in the British Library catalogue. This shouldn’t be surprising: the life of ...

Born poor in St. Louis, Missouri, Josephine Baker achieved fame and fortune through her sizzlingly exotic, erotic performances. Starting life on the American Vaudeville circuit, success takes ...

The story of Josephine Baker takes us on a fascinating tour of 20th-century race relations on both sides of the Atlantic, yet it leads to no conclusion, and black girls in search of a role-model ...

The trailblazing performer and activist’s book, ‘Fearless and Free,’ hits shelves on Feb. 4 Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and ...