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I salute the memory of Josephine Baker who was not only a Cotton Club dance hall girl who was disrespected there among other dancers but also humiliated in America on a number of occasions and to which, in particular, the Stork Club was eventually shut down over a outcry of outrage of how Josephine and her guests were treated there. Josephine was vindicated considering no Cotton Club girl who talked about her at not being beautiful in their interpretation of beauty at wanting to be white to be right with the bigot mob crowd, fell way short of the accomplishments of Josephine ultimately as a humanitarian. God bless the memory of Madam Josephine Baker who had more beauty and class than any of them who hated her could ever have:
PARIS - Josephine Baker, the famed French American dancer, singer and actress who fought in the French resistance during WWII and later battled racism, will later this year become the first Black woman to enter France's Pantheon mausoleum.
Baker will be the sixth woman to join about 80 great national figures of French history in the Pantheon after Simone Veil, a former French minister who survived the Holocaust and fought for abortion rights, entered in 2018.
Baker will be honored on November 30 with a memorial plaque, one of her children, Claude Bouillon-Baker, told AFP.
"Pantheonisation is built over a long period of time," an aide to President Emmanuel Macron told AFP on Sunday, confirming a report in the Le Parisien newspaper.
Jennifer Guesdon, part of a group campaigning for Baker's induction that includes one of her sons, said they met with Macron on July 21.
"When the president said yes, (it was a) great joy," she said.
The Baker family has been requesting her induction since 2013, with a petition gathering about 38,000 signatures.:
https://www.voanews.com/europe/jose...vLLKWrIXOBml6Azi7A1Th3ypwtKVSN0j9kZFCLtj-r20o
PARIS - Josephine Baker, the famed French American dancer, singer and actress who fought in the French resistance during WWII and later battled racism, will later this year become the first Black woman to enter France's Pantheon mausoleum.
Baker will be the sixth woman to join about 80 great national figures of French history in the Pantheon after Simone Veil, a former French minister who survived the Holocaust and fought for abortion rights, entered in 2018.
Baker will be honored on November 30 with a memorial plaque, one of her children, Claude Bouillon-Baker, told AFP.
"Pantheonisation is built over a long period of time," an aide to President Emmanuel Macron told AFP on Sunday, confirming a report in the Le Parisien newspaper.
Jennifer Guesdon, part of a group campaigning for Baker's induction that includes one of her sons, said they met with Macron on July 21.
"When the president said yes, (it was a) great joy," she said.
The Baker family has been requesting her induction since 2013, with a petition gathering about 38,000 signatures.:
https://www.voanews.com/europe/jose...vLLKWrIXOBml6Azi7A1Th3ypwtKVSN0j9kZFCLtj-r20o