Paris is celebrating Josephine Baker with a new mural honoring her legacy. The artwork was unveiled Saturday in northeast ...

The colorful street art, which features a quote from one of her songs, honors the iconic singer, dancer and civil rights ...

Just over 50 years after Josephine Baker's death and nearly four since she was inducted into the Panthéon in Paris, a street ...

In 1926, Josephine Baker was approached by French journalist Marcel Sauvage about writing a memoir. Then 20 years old, the stage and screen performer thought it was a hilarious prospect, until she ...

Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakeningis available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet ...

Josephine Baker died in Paris of a stroke in 1975. Crowds poured into the streets as she was buried with full military honors – a salute to her life and her legacy.

On Nov. 30, the American-born singer, actress and French Resistance heroine Josephine Baker became the first Black woman to be inducted into the Panthéon in Paris.

Baker, who died in 1975 at 68, was born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, but made a name for herself on the stage and screen — while doubling as an agent of the French Resistance during ...

Entertainer Josephine Baker holds a rhinestone-studded microphone as she performs during her show “Paris, mes Amours” at the Olympia Music Hall in Paris, on May 27, 1957.

Missouri-born cabaret singer and dancer Josephine Baker is surrounded by army officers during a ceremony in which she was awarded the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre with palm on Aug. 19 ...

Baker also was portrayed by Diana Ross on Broadway and television in An Evening With Diana Ross, by Karine Plantadit; in the biopic Frida and by Cush Jumbo in her debut play Josephine and I.

“Josephine Baker can be considered to be the first Black superstar,” said Rosemary Phillips, a Barbados-born performer and co-owner of Baker’s park in southwestern France, on Tuesday.