Have you peeped Google today? It's all about Josephine Baker, a world-famous entertainer known for her famous banana costume and activism. The search engine site, which sometimes uses its homepage to ...

After she escaped the slums of St. Louis for Paris in 1925, Josephine Baker (1906-1975) became the most famous entertainer in the world. Pictured in a string of beads and a skirt of fake bananas, she ...

In France during the 1920s, it wasn’t difficult to spot a poster of a vibrant, young woman decorated in a dazzling banana skirt with strings of pearls strewn across her bare chest. Fans flocked to ...