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

A new mural in north-eastern Paris revives the spirit of legendary entertainer, activist and French resistance member Josephine Baker, and her love for both her country, the United States, and her ...

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

Wearing sequins, rhinestones, pearls — and sometimes nothing — Josephine Baker lit up the stage. She danced her way out of abject poverty in St. Louis into the grand orchestra halls and cabarets of ...

Entertainer Josephine Baker holds a rhinestone-studded microphone as she performs during her show “Paris, mes Amours” at the Olympia Music Hall in Paris, on May 27, 1957.

Dark and sleek as can be, the classic ultra-short cut was worn slicked down against Palmer's head and featured a number of ...

American-born entertainer Josephine Baker will become the first black woman to be inducted into Paris’ Panthéon memorials for icons of France. Baker, who died in 1975 at 68, was born Freda ...

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 ...

Even decades after death, Josephine Baker is still making history. The civil rights pioneer and iconic entertainer, who became an international sensation as a head-turning performer in the Paris ca… ...

Images of Josephine Baker are projected on the facade of the Panthéon during her induction ceremony on Nov. 30 in Paris. (Thierry Chesnot/Getty Images) Analysis by Annette Joseph-Gabriel.

Josephine Baker (played by Tymisha Harris in "Josephine") was well-known as a burlesque performer. What wasn't readily known: She was also a spy.