The third episode of the new series, Makeup: A Glamourous History delves into how Josephine Baker revolutionised ideas about tanned skin and beauty culture in the 1920s. Dancer, singer ...
Nora Holt was a pioneer of Chicago’s Black classical music scene. A friend of Josephine Baker, she later became a blues singer in Parisian nightclubs. A 1934 portrait of Nora Holt by Carl Van ...