Josephine Baker to be first Black woman in France’s Pantheon ...Qatar

Josephine Baker, the famed French-American dancer, singer and actress who fought in the French resistance during WWII and later battled racism, will become the first Black woman to enter France’s Pantheon mausoleum. The remains of American-born Baker will be laid to rest in the hallowed Parisian monument on November 30, an aide to President Emmanuel Macron told AFP yesterday, confirming a report in the Le Parisien newspaper. “Pantheonisation is built over a long period of time,” the aide said. Baker will become just the sixth woman to join the around 80 great national figures of French history in the Pantheon after Simone Veil, a former French minister who survived the Holocaust and fought

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