How to Organize an Anti-Racist Olympic Games?
3 min readMar 15, 2024
In Berlin, before the rise of the Nazi, there was Joséphine Baker.
In the mid-1920s, the young Afro-American dancer with the wild sway was triumphantly welcomed. In 1926, her show sold out at the Nelson-Theater on the Kurfürstendamm.
But her return three years later was not so welcoming. In the German capital, she met with growing hostility from the xenophobic…