Iván Román is a freelance journalist, editor and communications consultant based in Washington, D.C. who has focused primarily on the country’s increasingly diverse racial and ethnic communities, its complex challenges regarding immigration, and Caribbean and Latin American affairs.
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Harlem in the 1920s and ’30s offered the Black creative class a sense of pride and possibility. It also had cross‑dressing blues singers, extravagant drag balls and literary and artistic salons.
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Cleopatra. Boudica. Queen Seondouk. Female rulers in antiquity were few and far between, but left powerful legacies.
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