African American culture defines New York City and the United States. It’s complicated, but we’ve been North Americans since 1513, Americans since 1619, and New Yorkers since 1626. We are one of the communities who built Wall Street, this city, and this country.
A lot of both Latin and American culture is African Diaspora culture. In the States, they took away the drum and we got the blues, the root of most American popular music and dance including: jazz, folk, country, R&B, swing, rock, disco, funk, hip-hop, trap, and now Afro-everything. The blues has rumba in it. Latin and African American culture keep mixing across the border because we are both sides.
The first Harlem Renaissance defined American culture in the 1920s. The second defined the 1970s. New York is now having a Harlem Renaissance 3.0. Hip-hop, which in Latin culture becomes reggaeton, rules the world.
African American Culture in New York City
Fall For Dance 2023 Celebrates 20 Years at New York City Center
Five programs of three international dance companies for $20 + fees at one of New York’s leading dance theaters.
NEW YORK CITY CENTER in Midtown, Manhattan
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Global Citizen Festival Latin Headliners Include Anitta, D-Nice, Lauryn Hill and Sofia Carson
Great artists support ending extreme poverty.
GREAT LAWN
Central Park
Saturday, September 23, 2023
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Harlem’s African American Day Parade Celebrates African American Culture
One of New York’s big festivals of African American culture.
HARLEM
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Independent 20th Century Art Fair Looks Deeper Into the Recent Past
The Independent 20th Century 2023 art fair recasts the recent past with a New York state of mind. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇹🇹
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NYC Broadway Week Summer 2023 Offers 2-for-1 Tickets to Great Latin Broadway
Chicago the Musical, Hamilton, Here Lies Love, JaJa’s African Hair Braiding, The Lion King, Moulin Rouge, and more.
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The Birth of Hip-Hop, and You Don’t Stop!
Hip-hop roots go way back, but what is generally considered hip-hop’s birthday was Clive and Cindy Campbell’s “Back to School Jam” block party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in Morris Heights, The Bronx, on August 11, 1973.
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American Ballet Theatre’s 2023 Spring Season Features Like Water For Chocolate, Giselle, Swan Lake, & Romeo and Juliet
New artistic director Susan Jaffe makes her mark with a series of ballets about passion.
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American Ballet Theatre is America’s National Ballet Company
One of the world’s great classical ballet companies is also a world leader in ballet diversity with great Latin and African American dancers.
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NYC Pride Builds to a Climax at the NYC Pride Parade
The NYC Pride rally, brunch, youth festival, and dance parties climax with the march, street fair, and music festival headlined by Christina Aguilera.
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Drums Along the Hudson is a Native American & Multicultural Celebration of Drum, Song & Dance
A spectacular multicultural pow wow brings the old ways back to life. Everyone hears the call of the drum. 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇱🇰 🇺🇸
INWOOD HILL PARK
Sunday, June 4, 2023
Blue Note Jazz Festival 2023 Brings Latin Jazz Legends to NYC
A jazz festival with everything from the blues to Latin to hip-hop.
Hammerstein Ballroom, The Town Hall, Sony Hall, Blue Note NYC
May 31 – July 2, 2023
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Human Rights Watch Film Festival Brings Global Problems into Focus
We have a lot of problems that we can only solve together, including war, women’s rights, transgender rights, health, environmental destruction, and press freedom.
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER
May 31 – June 11, 2023
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DanceAfrica 2023 Celebrates Ghanaian and African Diaspora Culture at BAM
A choreographic and musical journey through ancestral and contemporary Ghanian culture, a big influence on Caribbean and African American culture.
BAM, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC
Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Friday-Monday, May 26-29, 2023
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The Little Mermaid 2023 Looks Like Me
Opens citywide
Friday, May 26, 2023
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Bronx Week 2023 Climaxes with the Bronx Week Parade, Food and Arts Festival and Concert
Bronx Week includes a silent disco, skate party, Bronx Walk of Fame induction, parade, food and arts festival, and a concert.
THE BRONX
May 12-21, 2023
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Dance Parade NYC 2023 DanceFest Gets over 10,000 New Yorkers Dancing in the Streets
DANCE PARADE
Chelsea, Greenwich Village, East Village
African, Afrobeat, Afro-Cuban, Bhangra, Bollywood, Bomba, Break Dancing, Caporales, Carnival, Dancehall, Flamenco, Folkloric, Hip-Hop, House, Jazz, Latin, Majorette, Mexican, Moko Jumbies, Reggae, Salay, Salsa, Samba, Soca, Street, Tammurriata, Tap, Tarrantella, Tinkus, and more. 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇮🇹 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇹🇹
DANCEFEST Tompkins Square Park
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Saturday, May 20, 2023
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Harlem International Film Festival 2023 Brings the Spotlight Uptown
Television and film world premieres, a red carpet gala, and lots of filmmakers.
AMC MAGIC JOHNSON
Harlem
Thursday-Sunday, May 18-21, 2023
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PEN World Voices Festival 2023 is Mightier Than the Sword
International writers gather to talk about protecting free expression and human rights through literature.
MULTIPLE VENUES
Wednesday-Saturday, May 10-13, 2023
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The New York African Film Festival 2023 Free Forms into Film Africa
30 African and Diaspora films from more than 15 countries with subtle cultural and storytelling complexity that has largely evaporated in Hollywood.
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER
May 10-16, 2023
MAYSLES CENTER, Harlem
May 20-21, 2023
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Bryant Park Dance Party 2023 gives Free Dance Lessons Followed by Live Music for Dancing!
Talia Castro-Pozo hosts bachata, cumbia, salsa, swing, and tango dance lessons followed by live music for dancing. FREE!
La Excelencia salsa, Wed, May 3
Pedro Giraudo tango, Thu, May 4
Afro-Andean Funk cumbia, Wed, May 10
Charenee Wade’s Band of Swing, Thu, May 11
Valerio bachata, Wed, May 17
Santiago y la Orquesta salsa, Thu, May 18
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African Diaspora International Film Festival 2023 is a World Full of Music & Soul
This is an outstanding curation of excellent films that show the power and resilience of African Diaspora culture around the world. There are American, Brazilian, British, Cuban, French, Guadeloupean, Malian and Peruvian music films.
COLOMBIA UNIVERSITY TEACHERS COLLEGE
Morningside Heights, Manhattan
Friday-Sunday, April 28-30, 2023
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Black Arts Movement: Then & Now Conference
Angela Davis, Nona Hendryx, Toshi Reagon, Dafnis Prieto, Tavia Nyong’o, Vernon Reid
HARLEM STAGE
Manhattanville, West Harlem
Thu-Sat, May 18-20, 2023
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture was Founded by a Puerto Rican Art Collector
Rahsaan Patterson sings R&B for Carnegie Hall Citywide.
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Dance Theatre of Harlem Bids Farewell to Artistic Director Virginia Johnson at New York City Center
New York Premieres of William Forsythe’s “Blake Works IV;” and a new Tiffany Rea-Fisher ballet set to DJ Erica Blunt, inspired by Hazel Scott.
Incoming Artistic Director Robert Garland’s hit “Higher Ground,” and departing Artistic Director Virginia Johnson’s favorite Balanchine, “Allegro Brillante.”
Dance Theatre of Harlem has come all the way back.
NEW YORK CITY CENTER
Midtown, Manhattan
Wednesday-Sunday, April 19-23, 2023
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The New York Opera Alliance NYOANext Brings Opera To and From The Bronx
Bronx Opera, International Brazilian Opera Company, Manhattan Opera Repertory Ensemble, Encompass New Opera Theatre, Little Opera Theatre of NY with Harlem Opera Theater, SAS Performing Arts Company, Opera Praktikos (deaf opera).
OPEN AUDITIONS
Bronx Music Heritage Center
Melrose, The Bronx
Thursday, April 20, 2023
PERFORMANCES
Bronx House
Pelham Parkway, The Bronx
Saturday, April 22, 2023
Bronx Music Heritage Center
Melrose, The Bronx
Sunday, April 23, 2023
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House of Yes is One of New York’s Wildest Night Clubs
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Friday, April 21, 2023
Earth Love Fest Block Party
Sunday, April 23, 2023 🌎
Bushwick, Brooklyn
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Future Dance Festival 2023 is Propelling Dance Forward
92nd Street Y
Saturday, April 15, 2023
Performances by finalists in this open competition for choreographers, produced by the Harkness Dance Center.
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The 11th Black Comic Book Festival 2023 is a Creative Gathering of Comic, Graphic Novel & Cosplay Families
SCHOMBURG CENTER in East Harlem
April 14-15, 2023
The SchomCom brings together animators, Blerds, bloggers, illustrators, publishers and writers in a family celebration of Black comic books and graphic novels, with a cosplay showcase.
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