Items among Mary Strauss' bequest to the Missouri History Museum include hair care product and a costume worn by Josephine Baker. For 40 years, Mary Strauss has painstakingly acquired items related to ...

PARIS (AP) — Paris is reviving the spirit of U.S.-French entertainer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker with a new mural. Fifty years after her death, Baker now gazes out over a diverse ...

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She entered history not with a whisper, but with a shimmy, a smile, and a string of bananas. Josephine Baker was many things—a dazzling performer, a cunning spy, a civil rights warrior, and the ...

Josephine Baker arrived in Paris from the slums of St. Louis in 1925 and rose to stardom playing a stereotype of an African “primitive” in “La revue nègre,” a musical act featuring an all-black cast.

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Josephine Baker, nicknamed Black Venus poses on September 23, 1951, in a Balmain black velvet gown topped off with a huge heart-shaped ermine collar with muff to match. (AFP/Getty Images) Review by ...