Their conversations over the next two decades culminated into the book Fearless and Free, first published in 1949. Now, the ...

To mark International Women's Rights Day, the Palais de la Femme is organizing a festive, feminist and supportive event in ...

Fearless and Free,” recorded between 1926 and 1949, is full of heroism, glamour, righteous anger — and things you wish you could unsee.

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The neighborhood, covering approximately 500 acres, was home to significant cultural figures such as Josephine Baker and Scott Joplin. It included schools, Black-owned businesses, historic churches, ...

Born poor in St. Louis, Missouri, Josephine Baker achieved fame and fortune through her sizzlingly exotic, erotic performances. Starting life on the American Vaudeville circuit, success takes ...

“We wanted a godmother for the show — and she came naturally to our mind.” That was Josephine Baker, and the artist Brancusi was selected, too. Why Baker, the American-born French dancer and ...

Baker was born Freda Josephine McDonald on 6 June 1906 in St ... only to be replaced by black workers. After a three-day crisis of in which white workers attacked black residents, at least ...

Nearly 120 years on from her birth, Josephine Baker seems almost shockingly modern. “Success is, first and foremost, about adapting,” writes the groundbreaking, dancer, actor, singer — and spy.

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 ...

The trailblazing performer and activist’s book, ‘Fearless and Free,’ hits shelves on Feb. 4 Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and ...