World & Nation
Plans are underway to reinter the remains of American-born singer and dancer Josephine Baker at the Panthéon monument in Paris.
Aug. 22, 2021
Culture Monster Blog
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Dec. 22, 2011
France inducts the U.S.-born entertainer, anti-Nazi spy and civil rights activist into the Pantheon, joining Voltaire, Marie Curie and Victor Hugo.
Nov. 30, 2021
Josephine Baker next week will become the first Black woman and first American to be honored with enshrinement in Paris’ Pantheon.
Nov. 27, 2021
Movies
It looks for all the world like a large-scale Hollywood epic--the kind they just don’t make any more.
July 22, 1990
Lifestyle
What if Josephine Baker and Billie Holiday opened a SoCal dispensary? Wonder no more.
Nov. 10, 2021
Dec. 21, 2021
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.
Television
Josephine Baker, described by Ernest Hemingway as the most sensational woman anybody ever saw or ev er will, became the sultry, controversial rage of Europe in the 1920s after leaving the United States at 19 to escape racism.
March 10, 1991
‘Josephine Baker’ Story: Fifteen years after her death, the story of Josephine Baker is going to make it to film--as a TV movie for HBO.
March 7, 1990