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. Baker's voice ...

At the end of this month, France gives a special honor to Josephine Baker. The remains of the singer will be moved to the Paris Pantheon. That's the French mausoleum of heroes. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley ...

Alice Fennelly grew up in Loveland, surrounded by the Rocky Mountains and bronze sculptures. Now, living in a suburb of Paris, she was inspired by the life story of Joséphine Baker — a woman filled ...

PARIS (AP) — The voice of Josephine Baker, speaking and singing, will resonate Tuesday in front of the Pantheon monument in Paris, where she is to symbolically be inducted — becoming the first Black ...

PARISPARIS — 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 ...

Josephine Baker's grave is pictured at the Monaco-Louis II Cemetery in Monaco, Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. France is inducting Missouri-born cabaret dancer Josephine Baker who was also a French World War ...

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