Overview

• The mural was painted by urban artist FKDL and unveiled on July 19 in a northeast Paris neighborhood.
• It was created as part of the Paris Colors Ourq street art festival to promote communal engagement.
• The artwork depicts Baker to symbolize her lifelong struggle against racism, her role in the French Resistance, and her advocacy for civil rights.
• Baker’s son Brian Baker, present at the unveiling, called the mural a moving tribute to his mother’s memory.
• Josephine Baker fled U.S. segregation in 1925, became a 1930s megastar and the first Black woman inducted into France’s Panthéon for her entertainment career and activism.