In the 1920s and '30s, Baker was a hugely successful dancer, actress and comedian who was slinking and shaking her way through Paris and Harlem nightclubs. By the 1940s, she'd become a socialite, a ...

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 ...

Josephine Baker overcame the racism that she parodied in her famous banana skirt dance to become the world’s first Black female superstar. And later this month she will become the first Black woman to ...