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African American NYC

African American NYC is all over, but traditionally in Harlem and Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Take the “A” train.

African American isn’t necessarily Latin, but we are all part of the African Diaspora.

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African American Culture

Most American popular culture originates in the African Diaspora.

African American Festivals

  • African American Day Parade
  • African Restaurant Week
  • Afropunk
  • Black History Month
  • BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn
  • Our Lady of Candelaria
  • DanceAfrica
  • Harlem International Film Festival
  • Harlem Silent Parade
  • Harlem Week
  • Juneteenth
  • Juneteenth Parade & Street Fair
  • Kwanzaa
  • Martin Luther King Day
  • Memorial Day

African American New York City

  • 1520 Sedgwick Avenue
  • Africa Center
  • African Burial Ground National Monument
  • Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
  • Apollo Theater
  • Audubon Ballroom
  • Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute
  • Dance Theater of Harlem
  • Hotel Theresa
  • Jazz at Lincoln Center *
  • Lewis Latimer House
  • Louis Armstrong House
  • Minton’s Playhouse
  • Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  • Seneca Village (Central Park)
  • Studio Museum
  • Wall Street
  • Weeksville Heritage Center

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Mother Africa

Africa is Mother, the mother of all humanity. The New York Latin Culture Magazine project opened our eyes to how African we are both as Latins and Americans – regardless of our personal heritage. The persistence of African Diaspora culture and its dominance of American popular culture are extraordinary.

It’s true that American history is African history, but also that American popular culture is mostly African Diaspora culture. The Diaspora built the United States; England, France, Holland, Portugal and Spain; the Caribbean and Latin America.

Colonial thinkers cannot grasp the diversity of Mother Africa and the Diaspora, but African, African American, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latin, Afro-European and Afro-Asian are all unique. “Different branches, same root.”

Where we live defines us more than our heritage, so we cover African Diaspora culture by country. For us, Afro-Cuban is just Cuban, and the West Indian Day Parade is Trinidadian. But most of what we cover is originally African culture.

African American NYC News

African American NYC Calendar

These are annual events. Dates may change so please confirm events before you go.

January

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February

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Black History Month

Langston Hughes, the Harlem Renaissance Jazz poet, was born in Joplin, Missouri on Feb 1, 1901. 🇺🇸

The feast of Our Lady of Candelaria, patron saint of the African Diaspora, is Feb 2.

Rosa Parks, the Mother of the Freedom Movement, was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on Feb 4, 1913. 🇺🇸

Frederick Douglass, the writer, speaker and statesman perhaps most responsible for our American self-concept, celebrated his birthday on Valentines Day, February 14. 🇺🇸

March

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April

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May

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June

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  • Juneteenth is a national holiday that celebrates freedom for all Americans on Jun 19.

July

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August

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August is important because the Haitian Revolution began on August 21, 1791. It changed everything and spread Haitian Creole culture around the Caribbean, including to Eastern Cuba (where what becomes Changüi, Cuban Son and Salsa suddenly appeared), Mayagüez Puerto Rico (where Bomba Puertorriqueña appeared), Trinidad (the mother of Caribbean Carnival) and New Orleans (Blues, Jazz and all the popular music of the United States).

August 28 marks:

  • The Feast of St Augustine, the commemoration of the death of the North African Berber (354-430) who was one of Christianity’s most influential thinkers.
  • The lynching of Emmett Till, a 14-year old boy in Mississippi in 1955.
  • Rev. Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963.
  • The death of Chadwick Boseman, the Black Panther, in 2020.

September

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  • Afropunk Brooklyn is Sat-Sun, Sep 10-11, 2022. afropunk.com
  • African American Day Parade is Sun, Sep 18, 2022.

October

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November

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December

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  • Kwanzaa, a rich African American holiday tradition that was created in New York City, is Dec 26 – Jan 1.

“You may write me down in history
with your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.”

Maya Angelou, from “Still I Rise,” 1978

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