Quelle surprise! While the legendary entertainer was traveling the globe being toasted as star, she was actually working as a ...

The singer Coco Jones, dressed in an ivory suit by the Indian designer Manish Malhotra, was among the first of the night to ...

As recounted in "Josephine Baker's Secret War ... to recount Baker's brave stand against fascism as part of the French resistance. Idolized across Europe For 50 years, Baker danced and sang ...

On the 80th anniversary of VE Day, we salute five women who worked tirelessly in the shadows to bring about an Allied victory ...

In a world that often tried to limit Black women to the margins of history, Josephine Baker pirouetted to the centre stage , not just as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Josephine Baker's memoir, "Fearless and Free" — an English translation (from the French) was published in February — she described the moment she left the United States as an unknown dancer in 1925 ...

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 ...