This note and Oluo’s foreword set the stage for some unsavory comments from Baker about Black and Jewish relations. More on that in a moment. Born Freda Josephine McDonald in 1906, Baker married ...

The trailblazing performer and activist’s book, ‘Fearless and Free,’ hits shelves on Feb. 4 In 1926, Josephine Baker was approached by French journalist Marcel Sauvage about writing a memoir.

The story of the iconic Josephine Baker will come to life at Gettysburg College’s Majestic Theater March 20 to 23 with ...

The story of the iconic Josephine Baker comes to life at Gettysburg College’s Majestic Theater with Josephine: A Burlesque ...

Baker was born Freda Josephine McDonald on 6 June 1906 in St. Louis Missouri. Baker experienced precarity throughout her early childhood and as a child worked as a live in domestic in order to ...

Josephine Baker (1906-1975) found fame in France in the 1920s as the American expat who danced in “a mere belt of bananas.” ...

France is honouring the US-born 20th Century singer and activist Josephine Baker with a place in the Pantheon on Tuesday. She’s the first black woman to be remembered in the resting place of ...

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 ...

France is honouring the US-born 20th Century singer and activist Josephine Baker with a place in the Pantheon on Tuesday. She’s the first black woman to be remembered in the resting place of ...