Black entertainer Josephine Baker honoured at France’s Pantheon

Pictures of Josephine Baker and a red carpet lead to the Pantheon monument in Paris (AP)

France is inducting US-born entertainer, anti-Nazi spy and civil rights activist Josephine Baker into the Pantheon – making her the first black woman to receive the nation’s highest honour.

Baker’s voice resonated through streets of Paris’ famed Left Bank as recordings from her extraordinary career kicked off an elaborate ceremony at the domed Pantheon monument.