Andscape at the Olympics: Paying tribute to Josephine Baker with Brian Scott Bagley
Andscape at the Olympics is an ongoing series exploring the Black athletes and culture around the 2024 Paris Games.
PARIS – Welcome to Andscape at the Olympics, a video series in which Andscape columnist William C. Rhoden, senior NBA writer Marc J. Spears and Andscape/ESPN commentator Arielle Chambers discuss the key topics about Black athletes and culture at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
In this special episode, Rhoden and Brian Scott Bagley, a Baltimore native who founded the Musée Joséphine Baker de Paris, visit the site of Chez Josephine, which the legendary American dancer/singer operated from 1926-28 in Paris. Bagley dives more into Baker’s history and influence and how a young woman who grew up in poverty in St. Louis, came to Paris and flourished.
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— Episode 5: Talking Noah Lyles running with COVID-19, Team USA basketball.
— Episode 4: Talking sprinters Noah Lyles, Sha’Carri Richardson and the 100 meters spectacle.
— Episode 3: U.S. gymnastics, Team USA Basketball’s odds of losing, sports the Games need.
— Episode 2: Talking U.S. women’s sports from Simone Biles to Sha’Carri Richardson.
— Episode 1: Talking USA Basketball, opening ceremony.
— Special episode: Recognizing author and essayist James Baldwin’s 100th birthday.
— Special episode: Talking Team USA women’s basketball with Jackie Young.
— Special episode: Talking with men’s 400-meter gold medalist Quincy Hall.
— Special episode: Kevin Durant’s mom, Wanda Durant, goes deep on relationship with her son.