Love, loyalty and community shape a group of friends and lovers singing the blues in Depression-era Harlem in Pearl Cleage's ...
The BBC’s new drama, Dope Girls, comes with a lot of hype. It’s set at the start of the Roaring Twenties. It features an ...
Enough cannot be said about the singing, the dancing, the costume and production design and more in William Kentridge's ...
The breathy persona she’s built might be read as an avatar for the very worldview that would make shameless sex positivity a ...
“The clothing is the actor,” explains Bravo, who worked as a costume designer before transitioning ... once frequented by Jean Cocteau, Josephine Baker, and Salvador Dalí, to celebrate ...
Seattle Rep continues its excellent 2024–2025 season with an exemplary revival of Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky, a ...
O n the eve of Black History Month, Pratt Manhattan Gallery debuted “Black Dress II: Homage,” a ten-year anniversary and expansion of the original exhibition, “Black Dress.
In Baker’s newly translated 1949 memoir, “Fearless and Free,” the boundary-breaking performer does not hold back on her ...
A rare, intimate picture of Baker emerges in her memoir, Fearless and Free, originally published in France in 1949 and now ...
In 1926, Josephine Baker was approached by French journalist Marcel Sauvage about writing a memoir. Then 20 years old, the ...