December 15, 2025
Tag: Josephine Baker
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Josephine Baker More Than A Film Star
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Josephine Baker was a beauty, an actress, a singer, a spy, a savior of abused animals and orphaned children, a civil rights activist, and a celebrity on two continents. In all these roles she made headlines. Tony Crumbley tells her complex and heroic story.
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December 14, 2020 2 Comments
Silhouettes were once among the most popular forms of art. Anyone could afford a silhouette because they were sold in resort gift shops and on seaside boardwalks. The one my mother had made of me came from Coney Island.