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Josephine Baker

August 2023

  • Josephine Baker in London in 1960.

    Nothing Ever Just Disappears by Diarmuid Hester review – room with a view

    Hester underlines the importance of place in this study of seven queer lives, from EM Forster to Josephine Baker

January 2023

  • Models walk past artwork depicting Josephine Baker by artist Mickalene Thoma at Dior’s Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2023 show at Paris Fashion Week.

    Dior revives the spirit of Josephine Baker as its catwalk guiding light

    The performer, civil rights icon and Dior devotee is restored to the fashion pantheon in Maria Grazia Chiuri’s Paris show

December 2021

  • Kenan Malik

    How can a country that hails Josephine Baker take the racist Zemmour seriously?

    Kenan Malik
    France prides itself on ‘universalism’. But bigotry festers in its ‘colour blind’ pose

November 2021

  • Josephine Baker, centre, collects hats for the French ‘Merci Train’, which left France for the US in January 1949 as a token of gratitude from the French people to the American people for their help in the second world war

    Josephine Baker, music hall star and civil rights activist, enters Panthéon

  • Josephine Baker

    The Guardian view on Josephine Baker: a timely addition to the Panthéon

  • Josephine Baker entertains the troops at a London victory party in 1945.

    Dancer, singer … spy: France’s Panthéon to honour Josephine Baker

  • ‘I don’t look bad for 115!’ … Ebony Feare as Josephine Baker with Sadi Masego as Marie and Daniel Kofi Wealthyland as Jack.

    Josephine review – Baker’s story packed with rhythm and blues

August 2021

  • Franco-American entertainer Josephine Baker receiving the Légion d’honneur and the Croix de Guerre after the second world war.

    Josephine Baker to become first Black woman to enter France’s Panthéon

    Performer who became part of the French resistance will be entered into the mausoleum in November

September 2017

  • Jean Malin in 1933’s Arizona to Broadway.

    Pansy Craze: the wild 1930s drag parties that kickstarted gay nightlife

    Early drag queens like Jean Malin helped bohemian gay culture thrive – before mob violence, Nazism and Hollywood homophobia drove it back underground

April 2016

  • Italian partisans round up a fascist sympathiser in Rome in 1944; the regime was overthrown in 1945

    From the Guardian archive
    Josephine Baker lands man in prison over fascist anthem - archive

    12 April 1950: Man leads crowd in rendition of banned song in Italy, while Bolivia outlaws communism

May 2015

  • Jessica Reed

    Women in France's Pantheon? I propose Josephine Baker

    Jessica Reed
    Two women are joining the 71 men in the republic’s temple of achievement. But there could be no better example of French values than welcoming an American

March 2015

  • cush jumbo josephine and i

    Josephine and I review – one-woman show goes deeper than hero-worship

    Cush Jumbo performs Jospehine Baker with such passion that it comes to seem less like homage and more like invocation

November 2013

  • Michaela DePrince, dancer

    Dance blog
    Everyday racism: how to be a black ballet dancer in a white world

    Michaela DePrince proudly declares herself a 'poppy among the daffodils', as Precious Adams reveals she was advised by a teacher to lighten her skin, writes Judith Mackrell

July 2013

April 2013

  • Flappers

    Josephine Baker and the wild women of 1920s dance – in pictures

    Flappers angered the Vatican and stood accused of starting 'the cult of the clitoris' in Britain. But they also played a huge role in the emancipation of women

November 2009

  • mailletz

    The last real cabaret in Paris?

    Dea Birkett goes underground to escape the tassles and feathers of the tourist shows and find the genuine spirit of Josephine Baker

August 2008

  • From the Guardian archive
    Josephine Baker, radiant temptress

    From the archive: August 26 1974: The child isn't more than 10, a delicate, vivacious face which will outlast beauty, and an inexhaustible energy that keeps her jumping on the bed as if it were a trampoline, until her mother, Josephine Baker, finishes her telephone call

October 2002

  • Paris when it sizzled

    With Stravinsky, Cocteau and Josephine Baker all in town, Paris between the wars witnessed an explosion of musical creativity. They were exotic, astonishing times, says Roger Nichols.

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