In the 1920s and '30s, Baker was a hugely successful dancer, actress and comedian who was slinking and shaking her way through Paris and Harlem nightclubs. By the 1940s, she'd become a socialite, a ...

PARIS - Josephine Baker overcame the racism that she parodied in her famous banana skirt dance to become the world's first Black female superstar. And later this month she will become the first Black ...

Josephine Baker was a global superstar, born in St. Louis' Mill Creek neighborhood. And now the Missouri Historical Society is the steward of an extraordinary private collection of Baker memorabilia, ...