After she escaped the slums of St. Louis for Paris in 1925, Josephine Baker (1906-1975) became the most famous entertainer in the world. Pictured in a string of beads and a skirt of fake bananas, she ...

PARIS (AP) — Paris is reviving the spirit of U.S.-French entertainer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker with a new mural. Fifty years after her death, Baker now gazes out over a diverse ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Exclusive: Chez Josephine was a piece of famed performer Josephine Baker’s story that is not widely known, but for which, a quiet ...

Josephine Baker was a world-renowned Black singer, dancer, and clown. During the 1920s and 1930s, she was the highest-paid entertainer in Europe.

She performed with a string of bananas tied around her waist, an electrifying act that led her to become first a local sensation in Paris, and then an international star. By Special to The New York ...