Josephine Baker: A Diva Who Embraced The World

Source: Jane Henderson / St. Louis Post-Dispatch  Josephine Baker, the world’s first black superstar, was a master of image and reinvention. In the 1920s, she twerked for Paris audiences before there was such word as “twerking.” Later, the mesmerizing woman who danced in a skirt of plastic bananas (breasts bare and bum jutting), would change into […]