In the 50 years since Josephine Baker's death, her unique artistry and life-long civil rights struggle has continued to ...

Fifty years after leaving this world, Josephine Baker (1906-1975) is once again shaking her bananas ... she proved her loyalty to her adopted country, hiding refugees and French Resistance fighters, ...

France is honouring the US-born 20th Century singer and activist Josephine Baker with a place in the ... through her work on civil rights and for the Resistance during the Second World War.

It took until 1998 for the French authorities to acknowledge these events ... Midway between those flashpoints, on 19 August, the African American performer and activist Josephine Baker was awarded ...

Before she was a legend, Josephine Baker was a little girl ... During World War II, she spied for the French resistance against the Nazis. She was also a fierce fighter for civil rights in ...

Josephine Baker takes on war work for the French Resistance - and becomes a pilot for the Red Cross. She danced and sang her way from the American slums of St Louis to fame and riches in 1920s France.

From March 6th to June 14th in Monaco, a new exhibition offers a multifaceted homage to the legendary Josephine Baker (1906–1975), the pioneering French-American entertainer and activist, delving into ...

Baker was born Freda Josephine McDonald on 6 June 1906 in ... Though some accounts claim that the French resistance trained Baker as a shooter, her primary role was to gather intelligence and ...

The life of Josephine Baker is a dazzling rags to riches story of a musical icon, stage sensation and heroine of the French Resistance who took 20th Century Europe by storm – think Janelle Monae ...

That woman is entertainer Josephine ... Baker makes history as first Black woman honored in France’s Pantheon France is inducting Missouri-born cabaret dancer Josephine Baker who was also a ...

Described by Pablo Picasso as a black Venus, American-born cabaret star and exotic dancer Josephine Baker was ... as an undercover agent for the French Resistance. Ean Wood's biography is read ...

Josephine Baker receiving the French Legion of Honor in 1961 for her undercover resistance workImage: AFP Josephine Baker and her husband lived at Les Milandes, a 15th-century castle in ...