Josephine Baker sashayed onto a Paris stage during the 1920s with a comic, yet sensual appeal that took Europe by storm. Famous for barely-there dresses and ...

Josephine Baker was born in a poor, black slum in East St. Louis, Illinois, on June 3, 1906, to 21 year-old Carrie MacDonald. Her mother hoped to be a music ...

Britannica online encyclopedia article on Sara Josephine Baker (American physician), Nov. 15, 1873Poughkeepsie, NY, US Feb. 22, 1945New York, NYAmerican ...

This exhibition traces Josephine Baker's important and innovative contribution to the Jazz Age through vintage photographs, posters, drawings, prints and ...

Britannica online encyclopedia article on Josephine Baker (French entertainer), June 3, 1906St. Louis, Mo., USApril 12, 1975Paris, FranceAmerican-born ...

A brief look at the life and career of jazz age legend Josephine Baker.

Jul 30, 2010 ... The Sensational Josephine Baker, a one-woman play with music by actress and emerging playwright Cheryl Howard, will get an Off-Broadway run ...

Learn about the life of Ella Josephine Baker at Biography.com. Read Biographies, watch interviews and videos.

Jan 2, 2007 ... PARIS — Josephine Baker loved Paris, and Paris loved Josephine Baker, so it seemed only natural that the centenary of her birth, ...

Sep 15, 2009 ... Serge KadocheMontclair native Nicolle Rochelle, center, starred in the Parisian production of "Looking for Josephine," which has its ...

Jun 3, 2007 ... Like Madonna and Grace Jones, Josephine Baker transformed and performed her identity.

Josephine Baker, whose sensual antics took Paris by storm, had nicknames such as "Black Venus," "Black Pearl" and "Creole Goddess." ...

to Josephine Baker in the book and urges upon the reader his interpretation ... In 1948, Josephine Baker sailed to New York, hoping to gain the recognition ...

Sara Josephine Baker was a pioneer in public health care and preventive medicine in the early part of the twentieth century. Josephine Baker (as she ...

Dr. S. Josephine Baker was the first woman to earn a doctorate in public health from the New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College (later ...

Jun 3, 2007 ... This book explores the complex construction of Baker's multiple images in art and life.”

Alluring as the Seine River is, it's hardly fit for a swim — there's a reason why the man-made Paris Plage (Paris Beach) is a purely cosmetic shore.

A young African American dancer named Josephine Baker and her act, ... lithographs issued in tribute to Josephine Baker and the other African ...

Jul 29, 2010 ... Emerging Artists Theatre, the company that produced last season's hit Penny Penniworth, presents the Off-Broadway premiere of The ...

Jun 11, 2007 ... If it's possible for a classically trained wind quintet to rock the house, Imani Winds blows the roof off. The five musicians came together ...