Josephine Baker (1903-1975), American-French dancer, singer, member of the French Resistance during WWII, intelligence agent, outspoken hater of Nazis, and civil rights activist, is to be re-interred at the Pantheon, among such luminaries as Voltaire, Victor Hugo, and Louis Braille. She is the first black woman to be so honoured.
About bleedin’ time.
Boru
About bleedin’ time.
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‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson