#Josephine Baker to Become First Black Woman Buried in Paris’ Panthéon
“#Josephine Baker to Become First Black Woman Buried in Paris’ Panthéon”
President Emmanuel Macron reportedly came to the decision at the urging of a petition signed by over 40,000 people calling for the move. The Times noted the symbolic nature of the move. “How could a woman who came from a discriminated and very poor background achieve her destiny and become a world star,” the writer Laurent Kupferman, who started the petition, said. “That was possible in France at a time when it was not in the United States.”
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