Josephine Baker in color, as you’ve never seen her before
https://historyofyesterday.com/the-glorious-and-passionate-life-of-josephine-baker-48d6d51e3e3a
Posted on 06/05/2021 4:33:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
Two individuals can be regarded as contrasting illustrations of the good and the bad of human beings. At the top is the exotic Black Venus, Josephine Baker, the American-born French entertainer who won the hearts of Paris and then became a French resistance fighter. At the bottom is Walter Duranty, one of Stalin’s useful idiots, who was the greatest journalist liar of his generation, the model of journalistic mendacity.
On Baker’s birthday, June 3, a petition was signed by thousands of French citizens for her to be buried in the Pantheon in Paris, an honor reserved for the most distinguished French individuals, one that can only be decided by the president of France. In 1961, Baker was awarded by President Charles de Gaulle the Croix de Guerre and named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. She should be inducted not because she was a woman or because she was black, but because of her acts of courage for the country of which she became a citizen. She would add to the only five women in the Pantheon.
Josephine Baker was born in poverty in East St. Louis, Missouri in 1906. At age 13 she married an Pullman porter, and after a quick divorce married, at age 15, a man named Willie Baker. In all, she had four marriages and several relationships with both men and women, including one with novelist Georges Simenon. Her favorite song was “J’ai deux amours, Mon Pays et Paris,” but she had many more than two lovers.
After a brief period in New York shows and in the black musical, Shuffle Along, she left the U.S. in 1925 for France. She became one of the first colored American entertainers in Paris, mainly at the Folies Bergère. She quickly achieved notoriety and celebrity with her risqué,
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“The basic issue is Duranty’s minimizing and denial of reports of famine.”
No, not quite. The basic issue is that the New York Times, TO THIS DAY, refuses to denounce this man and his Pulitzer.
Not mentioned in the article are the thousands of Americans who emigrated to the Soviet Union, based primarily on Duranty’s glowing reports of life over there (as compared to our Great Depression), with many bringing their families. They immediately had their passports seized upon arrival and were trapped. All but 2 wound up dead within 10 years as Stalin’s paranoia drove him to think they were spies.
In contrast, Duranty doubled ill deeds with evil words. As New York Times correspondent in Moscow, he played a major role by his articles denying famine and starvation in the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and other areas caused by Stalin’s policy of agricultural collectivization and grain seizures. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the 13 articles he wrote.This website is dedicated to the distinguished professional life of Gareth Jones, a young Welsh Journalist of worldwide repute for internationally exposing the 1932-33 Holodomor ...He dishonestly attacked the gifted Welsh reporter, Gareth Jones for his accurate reports on the famine, calling them “a big scare story.” Jones was the first to report, without any equivocation, the existence of the widespread Soviet famine in 1932-1933: “everywhere was the cry, there is no bread, we are starving.”
That, my friends is a tale of contrasts. More than one contrast really.
Contrast one; “Walter Duranty, one of Stalin’s useful idiots, who was the greatest journalist liar of his generation, the model of journalistic mendacity.” and
the prototype of 21st century ‘journalist’.
Josephine Baker, a true heroine.
Contrast two; Josephine Baker before pre war and Josephine Baker post war. An amazing story.
I remember when I grew up in Germany, my mother used to talk to me and my late twin sister about Josephine Baker. My mother was a fan of her.
She well deserves the long overdue honor.
To this day the corrupt media say there was a insurrection at the capital. They claim that china is not the source of the chinese virus. They will not say Wuhon virus. You will be banned from their websites if you tell the truth.
They call the terrorism by the democrat party in dozens of our cities by the democrat party thugs as peaceful etc etc etc.
Josephine Baker in color, as you’ve never seen her before
https://historyofyesterday.com/the-glorious-and-passionate-life-of-josephine-baker-48d6d51e3e3a
“France made me what I am. I will be grateful forever. The people of Paris have given me everything… I am ready, captain, to give them my life. You can use me as you wish.” — Josephine Baker offering her services to Free France
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I had never heard of Josephine Baker until I came across the above video several weeks ago. I was completely captivated. Just TOOOOOO CUTE!!
(And I love the sound and arrangement of that 1920's style orchestra.)
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