A bright mural of Josephine Baker, the Jazz Age entertainer and civil rights activist, now peers over Paris, the city she made her home. The mural comes from urban artist Franck Duval, known as FKDL, ...

Paris is celebrating Josephine Baker with a new mural honoring her legacy. The artwork was unveiled Saturday in northeast ...

Just over 50 years after Josephine Baker's death and nearly four since she was inducted into the Panthéon in Paris, a street ...

American-French entertainer and civil rights pioneer Josephine Baker is being memorialized in Paris with a new mural, fifty years after her passing. Through the efforts of urban artist FKDL and a ...

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

The Cabaret. In artistic Montmartre, Paris, a stone’s throw away from the red windmill tower of the landmark Moulin Rouge, sits a piece of Josephine Baker’s legacy that is not widely known ...

From Little Africa to the jazz cafes where Josephine Baker performed, here’s where to immerse yourself in the art, food, and ...

PARIS — Laurent Kupferman has been obsessed with Josephine Baker for nearly a decade, reading everything he could about a woman whose life story was so improbable, so American and yet so French.

In this Feb. 21, 1949 file photo, singer and dancer Josephine Baker performs during a show in Paris. (AP Photo/File) Baker quickly became famous for her “banana skirt” dance routines and wowed ...

In Josephine Baker's iconic song, "J'ai Deux Amours," the legendary entertainer describes having two loves, "my country and Paris." Forty-six years after her death, the French capital is giving ...

“But it was also a place where it was kind of the first real African American community in Paris.” Josephine Baker . Singer and dancer Josephine Baker (1906 – 1975), sitting on a tiger rug.