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 ...

Paris is reviving the spirit of U.S.-French entertainer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker with a new mural.

Legendary Black entertainer Josephine Baker is set to become the first Black woman to have her remains buried in the Panthéon monument in Paris – one of the highest honors in France.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

“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.

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.