Josephine Baker’s ‘Rainbow Tribe’ and the pursuit of universal brotherhood
theconversation.com
Out of everything that Josephine Baker accomplished in her life, her child advocacy work is perhaps the most overlooked.
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Original Title: TIL that Josephine Baker adopted 12 children of all skin colors, creating what she referred to as her “rainbow tribe” and her “experiment in brotherhood.” The children were all brought up in accordance with their heritage and the religions that Baker assigned to them.