This is Josephine Baker's story in her own words. The American-born French dancer, singer and actor dictated her life story to Marcel Sauvage while she was alive, who published the memoir in 1949.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Kwame Dawes, a Brown University professor of literary arts, has been named poet laureate of Jamaica. As poet laureate, Dawes is “charged with stimulating a ...