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On the surface, it’s a powerful message against racism: a Black woman will, for the first time, join other luminaries interred in France’s Pantheon. But by choosing U.S.-born entertainer Josephine Baker, critics say France is continuing a long tradition of decrying racism abroad while obscuring it at home.

French anti-racism activists who telephoned temporary employment agencies posing as a construction firm that wanted to hire only “European” workers say that more than one-third of the firms agreed to help with the discriminatory search.

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PARIS (AP) — An old painting found in the kitchen of an elderly French woman, who considered it an icon of little importance, has made her a multimillionaire. The work, a masterpiece attributed to the 13th-century Italian painter Cimabue that was discovered earlier this year, sold for 24 million euros ($26.6 million) Sunday. Dominique Le […]

The eight-time Olympic champion, Usain Bolt raced some guys in a near zero-gravity in a special plane flying above France.  Bolt grinned as he experienced weightlessness in the modified plane normally used for scientific research, but on this occasion to showcase a champagne bottle that will allow astronauts to drink bubbles in space. Bolt called […]

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PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has met singer Rihanna at the Elysee Palace after the pop star appealed to him on Twitter to contribute to her fund for education in developing countries. Rihanna was welcomed Wednesday by First Lady Brigitte Macron at the top of the steps of the Elysee Palace, the official […]

A Bastille Day celebration turned deadly Thursday after a man driving a truck carrying explosives and plowed into a crowd in Nice in southern France, killing 77, and leaving carnage nearly a mile-long, reports CNN. Police shot and killed the driver, who reportedly pointed his tractor-trailer into the crowd and accelerated, mowing bodies over, witnesses said. Nobody […]

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CANNES, France (AP) — Blake Lively‘s channeling of Sir Mix-A-Lot for an Instagram caption is causing a stir on social media. Lively posted side-by-side front and back shots of herself on the red carpet in Cannes, France, with the caption, “L.A. face with an Oakland booty,” a line from rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot’s 1992 hit, “Baby […]

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NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of yoga enthusiasts across the world bent and twisted their bodies in complex postures Sunday to mark the first International Yoga Day. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spread his mat among rows of people, including his Cabinet members and foreign diplomats, at New Delhi’s main thoroughfare, which was transformed into […]

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PARIS (AP) — A group of Chelsea fans have been filmed preventing a black man from boarding a subway train in France before the team’s Champions League game at Paris Saint-Germain. After twice pushing the man away, the group — some of whom chanted “Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea” moments before Tuesday’s incident — then sing “we’re […]

With the attacks in Paris on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine, safety precautions are a concern due to the fact that three men in hoods…

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PARIS (AP) — One man sought in the deadly shooting at a French satirical paper has turned himself in, and police hunted Thursday for two heavily armed men with possible links to al-Qaida in the military-style, methodical killing of 12 people at the office of a satirical newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad. President Francois […]

Racism is running rampart all over the world. According to reports, a group of French friends wanted to have a “negro evening,” so they gathered…