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Iván Román

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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6 Key Figures of the Harlem Renaissance’s Queer Scene

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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5 Women Who Ruled the Ancient World

Cleopatra. Boudica. Queen Seondouk. Female rulers in antiquity were few and far between, but left powerful legacies.

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United Farm Workers co-founders Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez sit together under portraits of Robert Kennedy and Mahatma Gandhi.

How Dolores Huerta Became an Icon of the Labor Movement

Together with Cesar Chavez, she spotlighted the ongoing civil and human rights struggles of farm workers.

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Eleanor Delano Roosevelt, seated, with a wide, warm smile

Eleanor Roosevelt’s Unprecedented Activism—From Inside the White House

The 32nd first lady wielded an influential—and disruptive—voice on behalf of equality, civil rights and social justice.

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Daily News front page December 12, 1978, Headline: INSIDE JOB SEEN IN $5M JFK HEIST

How the 1978 Lufthansa Heist Led to a Trail of Dead Bodies

A crew of mafia‑affiliated hijackers, killers, loan sharks and thieves made off with $5.8 million in cash and jewels. Most involved got ‘whacked.’

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