JOSEPHINE BAKER

It's hard to sum up the iconic stature, trailblazing art and activism, and historical importance of Josephine Baker with mere words (feel free to scan...

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Escaping segregation in 1920s America, she garnered fame in Paris as a nightclub artist, movie star and social activist, and was also a spy against the Nazis – roles that led her to become the first Black woman inducted into France's Panthéon of national heroes.

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France is inducting U.S.-born entertainer, anti-Nazi spy and civil rights activist Josephine Baker into the Pantheon, the first Black woman to receive the nation’s highest honor.

French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to "a war hero, fighter, dancer, singer; a Black woman defending Black people but first of all, a woman defending humankind. Josephine Baker fought so many battles with lightness, freedom, joy.”“Josephine Baker, you are entering into the Pantheon because, (despite) born American, there is no greater French (woman) than you,” he said. The tribute ceremony started with Baker’s song “Me revoilà Paris” (“Paris, I’m Back”). “The simple fact to have a Black woman entering the pantheon is historic,” Black French scholar Pap Ndiaye, an expert on U.S. minority rights movements, told The Associated Press. But French racism has often been more subtle, not as brutal as the American forms of racism,” he added.

Born in St. Louis, Baker became a megastar in the 1930s, especially in France, where she moved in 1925 to flee racism and segregation.

France has inducted U.S.-born entertainer, anti-Nazi spy and civil rights activist Josephine Baker into the Pantheon.

A Black woman will, for the first time, join other luminaries interred in France’s Pantheon.

On the surface, it’s a powerful message against racism: a Black woman will, for the first time, join other luminaries interred in France’s Pantheon. While Baker is widely appreciated in France, the decision has highlighted the divide between the country's official doctrine of colorblind universalism and some increasingly vocal opponents, who argue that it has masked generations of systemic racism. Baker’s entry into the Pantheon on Tuesday is the result of years of efforts from politicians, organizations and public figures.

France is inducting Missouri-born cabaret dancer Josephine Baker who was also a French World War II spy and civil rights activist into its Pantheon.

France is inducting Josephine Baker — Missouri-born cabaret dancer, French World War II spy and civil rights activist — into its Pantheon, the first Black woman honored in the final resting place of France’s most revered luminaries. On Tuesday, a coffin carrying soils from the U.S., France and Monaco — places where Baker made her mark — will be deposited inside the domed Pantheon monument overlooking the Left Bank of Paris.

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Josephine Baker will be reinterred at the Panthéon in Paris 46 years after her death. The famed entertainer will be the first Black woman to receive the honor. Scott Simon reflects on her legacy.

The monument houses the remains of scientist Marie Curie, philosopher Voltaire, writer Victor Hugo and other luminaries. Baker's remains will be reinterred in November.

France Pantheon Josephine Baker FILE - In this April 4, 1968 file photo, entertainer Josephine Baker appears with a young elephant on stage during her gala premiere at the Olympia Theatre in Paris. The remains of American-born singer and dancer Josephine Baker will be reinterred at the Pantheon monument in Paris, making the entertainer who is a World War II hero in France the first Black woman to get the country’s highest honor. Le Parisien newspaper reported Sunday Aug. 22, 2021, that French President Emmanuel Macron decided to organize a ceremony on November 30 at the Paris monument. (AP Photo/File) (Uncredited)PARIS — (AP) — The remains of American-born singer and dancer Josephine Baker will be reinterred at the Pantheon monument in Paris, making the entertainer who is a World War II hero in France the first Black woman to get the country’s highest honor. Baker will be the fifth woman to be honored with a Pantheon burial, and will also be the first artist.

PARIS — (AP) — The remains of American-born singer and dancer Josephine Baker will be reinterred at the Pantheon monument in Paris, making the entertainer who is a World War II hero in France the first Black woman to get the country’s highest honor. After her death in 1975, Baker was buried in Monaco, dressed in a French military uniform with the medals she received for her role as part of the French Resistance during the war. Baker will be the fifth woman to be honored with a Pantheon burial, and will also be the first artist. The other women are two who fought with the French Resistance during World War II — Germaine Tillion and Genevieve de Gaulle-Anthonioz — and Nobel Prize-winning chemist Curie. During WWII, she joined the French Resistance.

Plans are underway to reinter the remains of American-born singer and dancer Josephine Baker at the Pantheon monument in Paris.

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With February being Black History Month, and Presidents' Day observed on this coming Monday, Orlando Shakes is honoring both occasions with a pair of productions inspired by two powerful Black women who used their artistic voices to help establish Washington, D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial as the symbolic center of America's civil rights movement. Brevoort calls that chance encounter a "prelude" to Anderson's 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial for an integrated audience, which she says "historians now recognize as the starting bell for the civil rights movement. ... [Anderson] established the Lincoln Memorial as the symbol of civil protest in the United States, and that is the symbol that has endured to this day." "It was both a thrill and a scare" to play Anderson, says Carbonell, who studied rare footage of the diva appearing on Groucho Marx's game show What's My Line? Josephine will be staged in Shakes' newly covered outdoor courtyard, which was upgraded late last year with CARES Act funding.

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