It was the most risqué act in Paris. Every night at the Folies-Bergère in Montmartre, Josephine Baker performed an erotic dance wearing nothing more than a miniskirt of artificial bananas. No female ...

Josephina Baker, AKA “La Baker,” was a notorious black performer who left the United States because of oppressive segregation. Claiming France as her new Motherland, Baker performed her signature ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When the curtain rose on La Revue Nègre, a jazz and burlesque show featuring Black artists at the Théâtre des ...