Josephine Baker enters France's Pantheon, the first black woman to do so
French-American dancer, singer, actress and rights activist Josephine Baker is the first black woman to enter France's Pantheon mausoleum on Tuesday, nearly half a century after her death. Baker will be the sixth woman to be honoured in the secular temple to the "great men" of the French Republic, …
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