American fashion model Bella Hadid is seen promoting Orabella in SoHo on May 02, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Gotham/GC Images)

“Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975) was an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress. Nicknamed the “Bronze Venus”, the “Black Pearl”, and even the “Créole Goddess” in anglophone nations.

Baker was the first African American female to star in a major motion picture and to integrate an American concert hall, and to become a world-famous entertainer. She is also noted for her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement in the United States (she was offered the unofficial leadership of the movement by Coretta Scott King in 1968 following Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, but turned it down), for assisting the French Resistance during World War II and for being the first American-born woman to receive the French military honor, the Croix de guerre”.

Photo: American entertainer Josephine Baker in costume for her famous “banana dance”. Baker was an overnight sensation when she arrived in Paris in the mid-1920s. (Photo by Walery/Getty Images)

A model wears a bazin dress made by designer Fadi Maiga in Bamako, Mali, October 21, 2015. Gasps of delight filled the convention hall as models, decked out in Mali's signature bazin fabric in crimson reds, indigoes and neon greens, strutted the catwalk while musicians from across the West African nation provided the soundtrack. (Photo by Joe Penney/Reuters)

American rapper Cardi B, left, with American model Slick Woods, right, at the Moschino Miami Party, Art Basel, Miami Beach, Florida, USA on December 7, 2017. (Photo by Griffin Lipson/BFA/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

American model Bella Hadid shares a behind-the-scenes photo from a lingerie shoot on December 28, 2021. (Photo by bellahadid/Instagram)

American singer and model Ciara in the second decade of March 2023 makes a very important phone call. (Photo by ciara/Instagram)

American model Kendall Jenner in the second decade of May 2024 hits the steam room for FWRD. (Photo by Kendall Jenner/Instagram)

American media personality, socialite and model Kylie Jenner says “rise and shine” with her bra in the second decade of September 2022. (Photo by kyliejenner/Instagram)