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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 just the sixth woman to join the around 80 great national figures of French history in the Pantheon after Simone Veil, a …

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