Josephine Baker and her handler, Jacques Abtey left Les Milandes by car for the train station early on November 25, 1940. Abtey was in full disguise as Baker’s secretary. She was wrapped in a ...

Saturday marks the date of Baker’s birth in 1906 in St. Louis and early roots ... Preston as Josephine’s mother, the woman remained a complicated figure in the singer’s life and desire ...

AFP via Getty Images As Josephine Baker moved through international ... The mobs were such that Baker feared for her life. Ten years later, Baker’s face adorned the cover of a 1937 brochure ...

More candid was the biography “Josephine: The Hungry Heart ... and performing for troops along the Ma­ginot Line. Early in June of 1940, Baker, prompted by Abtey, left her beloved city ...

Austene Van stars as Josephine Baker, an African-American woman who became the toast of Paris as a cabaret performer, dictating the story of her complex and contradictory life to a young writer ...

You march to your own drummer and as in the new memoir, “Fearless and Free: A Memoir” by Josephine Baker, translated the French by Anam Zafar and Sophie Lewis, foreword by Ijeoma Oluo ...

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