FRANCE HAS WELCOMED AFRICAN-AMERICANS SINCE WORLD WAR I...

 WHEN SOLDIERS' JAZZ ASTONISHED PARISIANS

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Gospel singing has been sung and taught in Paris for years.

Ursuline Kairson Facebook

Entrée to Black Paris

Josephine Baker, one of the first international stars...  

• Entered the Panthéon (the secular mausoleum) on November 30, 2020.

Entrée to Black Paris, March 21 2021

Soon afterwards the television station France 24 interviewed Monique Wells, who publishes Entrée to Black Paris and guides visits that focus on African Americans.

• A square had already been named for her (in 2000)

Claude Abron

Inauguration of place Joséphine Baker, 14th, with the district mayor and the American singer Ursuline Kairson.

• Now a famous poster is spontaneously adapted:  

Entrée to Black Paris 

   

Bus stop in the 13th, novembre 2023; decor 2024 (Facebook, Jill Danger)

•  Her image is on a coin and painted on a wall (in 2024)


 

  169 boulevard de l'Hopital,13e 



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Entrée to Black Paris

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The association Sistahs Circle Paris,

and Entrée to Black Paris

make Black contributions known:

Entrée to Black Paris

A blog, whose photos appear on several of these pages, walking tours and events.

The Sistahs Circle sisterhood actively supports its varied and creative members and energizes American Democrats. Here Sherry Bell, co-founder of the Black Caucus for Democrats Abroad, vigorously mobilizes.

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