Josephine Baker, nee Bussema, age 85 of North Riverside, lifelong resident of the Riverside area, beloved wife of Walter Baker for 62 years; loving mother of Nancy (Robert) Osbrink and Henry (Joanne) ...

The famed entertainer-activist and French Resistance hero will be the first Black woman to receive the honor, 46 years after her death in 1975. One of the most pioneering Black entertainers in history ...

Josephine Baker, the legendary performer and entertainer, will be honored Tuesday at the Panthéon in Paris, where she will the first Black woman to be memorialized, as well as the first U.S.-born ...

Before Rosa Parks and John Lewis, there was Josephine Baker. Baker may have seemed like an unlikely civil rights figure — a cabaret singer and dancer who appeared onstage in glamorous style, sometimes ...

Josephine Alice Baker, nee Szarek, 95, of Park Ridge, IL, died Sept. 13 at St. Benedict Home, Niles. Born in Chicago April 20, 1914 she was a homemaker and general office worker, especially for ...