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Joplin's Ghost

Freedom in the Family

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Music

Joplin's Ragtime Style Lives on in Print and Song

April 18, 2006 • Scott Joplin was once among America's most popular songwriters. The son of a former slave, his Ragtime music swept the nation more than 100 years ago.

Joplin's Ragtime Style Lives on in Print and Song

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A Conversation with Tananarive Due, Part 2

January 18, 2006 • Farai Chideya concludes her two-part conversation with author Tananarive Due. Due talks about the inspiration for her civil rights memoir Freedom in the Family, which she co-authored with her mother.

A Conversation with Tananarive Due, Part 2

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A Conversation with Tananarive Due, Part 1

January 17, 2006 • In the first of a two-part conversation, Farai Chideya talks with fiction writer Tananarive Due. Her latest novel, Joplin's Ghost, tells the story of a rising R&B singer and how her life changes after she encounters the ghost of ragtime king Scott Joplin.

A Conversation with Tananarive Due, Part 1

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