Even though her most famous portraits feature her nude, save for a spangly headdress and a skirt of bananas, Josephine Baker is remembered as some kind of saintly figure. To hear her adopted son ...

Josephine Baker, the world’s first black superstar, was a master of image and reinvention. In the 1920s, she twerked for Paris audiences before there was such word as “twerking.” Later, the ...

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 ...