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Tell Me More Celebrates Women's History Month As women around the world rewrite their roles in society, we'll explore how biographies of notable women reflect those changes. In the coming weeks, we'll dive into biographies of divas and dancers, leaders of nations and queens of fashion.
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Tell Me More Celebrates Women's History Month

This month, we'll read biographies of divas and dancers, leaders of nations and queens of fashion.
A Photograph Unlocks Decades Of Family Secrets

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A Photograph Unlocks Decades Of Family Secrets

Jasmin Darznik left Iran as a child, knowing very little about her family's past. Years later, she found a photograph of her mother as a child-bride with a groom who was not Darznik's father. That starts a long journey of discovery that she chronicles in her book The Good Daughter.

A Photograph Unlocks Decades Of Family Secrets

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Coco Chanel: The Unlikely Fashion Icon

Coco Chanel's name is synonymous with high fashion and luxury. She was born into extreme poverty, and eventually revolutionized women's fashion. In her recent biography Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life, Lisa Chaney chronicles the life, loves and career of the fashion icon.

Coco Chanel: The Unlikely Fashion Icon

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Bad Girls Of History, How Wicked Were They?

Egypt's Cleopatra was called "Serpent of the Nile," and England's Mary Tudor, was called "Bloody Mary." Editor Shirin Yim Bridges asks whether these names were fair in the tween book series, The Thinking Girl's Treasury of Dastardly Dames.

Bad Girls Of History, How Wicked Were They?

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'Audacious' Black Ballerinas Had To Be On Point

Joan Myers Brown grew up in a time of rigid segregation, both in life and dance. Brenda Dixon Gottschild, author of Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina, talks with NPR's Michel Martin about how Brown tackled racial barriers in the ballet world.

'Audacious' Black Ballerinas Had To Be On Point

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