Prize-winning children's author of The Wild Way Home, Sophie Kirtley picks out an eclectic selection of books for under-13s.

Where does an artist who sculpts history’s most prominent women start? “The heart is where I begin,” says Loveland sculptor Jane DeDecker. “Sometimes I'll even layer that area so that you can kind of ...

Hemingway called her “the most sensational woman anybody ever saw.” If you read any well-informed account of the life of le tout Paris between the wars, you’ll almost certainly run across her name.

Janelle Monáe may have gone to the future on hit album Dirty Computer, but they are heading back in time for their next project. The Antebellum actor-singer will be embodying legendary entertainer and ...

Designed by French architect Louis Gilbert in the 1890s, the 12-bedroom villa—dubbed Le Beau Chêne—features elaborate Louis XIII-style stone and brickwork with turrets, Juliet balconies, and a ...

Villa Beau-Chêne, the 12-bedroom Parisian mansion where dancer and activist Josephine Baker made her home in the 1930s and ’40s, is on the market for €20.84 million (US$24.45 million). Baker, the ...

A Black woman will, for the first time, join other luminaries interred in France's Pantheon. That woman is entertainer Josephine Baker, and the honor will take place Tuesday. But critics in France say ...

COCA will premiere ILLUMINATED ECHOES, a new dance work by choreographer Tommie-Waheed Evans, from December 12–14, 2025. The ...

Iconic Jazz Age performer Josephine Baker left America for France in the Roaring Twenties. The first Black woman to star in a major film, the entertainer and activist landed just west of Paris and ...

In my high school senior memory book, I wrote that I wanted to become a Television News Anchor and Reporter. When I was in college, I had a professor who asked my class what made us think that we were ...

Jessica O'Hara-Baker is a California-born, New York-based actor and director. Recent and upcoming work includes Wickedest Woman (WP Theater); The Wanderers (The Lark); Usual Girls, you do not look ...