It was the most risqué act in Paris. Every night at the Folies-Bergère in Montmartre, Josephine Baker performed an erotic dance wearing nothing more than a miniskirt of artificial bananas. No female ...

“Josephine Baker was a trendsetter and the trend, in my opinion, was Blackness,” award-winning ballet soloist Gabe Stone Sheyer said poignantly about the legacy of the renowned dancer 100 years after ...

Dancer, singer, and actress Josephine Baker was born Freda Josephine McDonald on June 3, 1906 in St. Louis. Her show on Feb. 3, 1952, in Kiel Auditorium was noteworthy mainly for occurring at all.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Exclusive: Chez Josephine was a piece of famed performer Josephine Baker’s story that is not widely known, but for which, a quiet ...

In the 1920s and ’30s, Josephine Baker was known for her banana skirt, pet cheetah and seminude stage shows in France. Later, she spoke out for civil rights with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The amazing story of the first Black superstar. Baker, born into poverty in Missouri in 1906, moved to France where she became a dancer hailed as the Queen of Paris, joined the French Resistance, and ...

In artistic Montmartre, Paris, a stone’s throw away from the red windmill tower of the landmark Moulin Rouge, sits a piece of Josephine Baker’s legacy that is not widely known, but for which, a quiet ...