“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 ...

Famous for her dancing, comedy and costumes, there was never a risk of boredom when Josephine Baker took the stage. An international Jazz Age star and a World War II spy to boot?It sounds like a story ...

Josephina Baker, AKA “La Baker,” was a notorious black performer who left the United States because of oppressive segregation. Claiming France as her new Motherland, Baker performed her signature ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Editor's note: Story has been updated to note that Josephine Baker's body will remain interred in Monaco. Josephine Baker got her ...

Lovecraft Country Episode 7 was the trippiest episode yet of the HBO show, with Hippolyta Freeman (played by Aunjanue Ellis) heading through a crack in time and space and into what seemed to be a very ...

Black, American-born, a woman, and arguably best known for her exotic dancing: Josephine Baker hardly fits the profile of France’s historical heroes. But today, the performer from Saint Louis, ...

Josephine Baker made her debut as “Black Venus” in Berlin in 1926, performing the Charleston at the Nelson Theater on Kurfürstendamm. “Berlin feels great!,” she later enthused. “A pure triumph. They ...