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

Though journalist Marcel Sauvage briefly touches on Josephine Baker’s later life and he hints at her work during World War II ...

In Baker’s newly translated 1949 memoir, “Fearless and Free,” the boundary-breaking performer does not hold back on her ...

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 ...

For those who know anything about the swanky jazz singer who found solace in 1920s Europe, Josephine Baker's legacy is often tied to the glitz and glamour of Paris, where she captivated audiences ...

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

The life of Josephine Baker is a dazzling rags to riches story of a musical icon, stage sensation and heroine of the French Resistance who took 20th Century Europe by storm – think Janelle Monae ...

That woman is entertainer Josephine Baker, and the honor will take place Tuesday. But critics in France say that by focusing on an American-born figure,… Josephine Baker makes history as first ...

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 ...

Josephine Baker ... way I am and the way I understand things,” Baker declared. She was banned from the United States by J. Edgar Hoover in the early 1960s, on suspicion of communist sympathies ...

“I’m not sure,” she added, “that, by the end of her life, Josephine herself ... citing remarks in the memoir. Baker vehemently denied the charge, noting her early support for the state ...