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Drums Along the Hudson is a Native American Powwow and Multicultural Celebration of Drum, Song, & Dance

INWOOD HILL PARK, Inwood, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇱🇰

South Bronx Cultural Festival Celebrates Casita Maria’s 91st Anniversary with an Eddie Palmieri Tribute, Nelson González All Star Band, Bronx Banda featuring Arturo O’Farrill and Lots More

FATHER GIGANTE PLAZA, Longwood, The Bronx 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇲🇽 🇵🇷

Nova Frontier Film Festival Screens Films of the African Diaspora, Middle East, and Latin America with Talk, Live Music and Community at Harlem Stage

HARLEM STAGE, Manhattanville, West Harlem 🇺🇸 🇧🇪 🇬🇧 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇬🇳 🇮🇷 🇲🇽 🇲🇦 🇵🇷 🇸🇳 🇪🇸 🇹🇷 🇨🇴

Blue Note Jazz Festival New York Presents Some Great Latin Artists

BLUE NOTE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
SONY HALL, Times Square Theater District, Manhattan
SUMMERSTAGE Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, Manhattan
National Sawdust, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!, Prospect Park, Brooklyn

DanceAfrica, America’s Largest African and Diasporic Dance Festival, Celebrates the Culture of Mozambique

BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC (BAM), Fort Greene, Brooklyn 🇺🇸 🇨🇲 🇸🇳

Loisaida Festival Kicks Off Summer in Alphabet City AKA “Loisaida”

AVENUE C, Alphabet City, East Village, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🇵🇷

New York City Football Club (NYCFC) Hosts the Hudson River Derby

YANKEE STADIUM, Concourse, The Bronx
CITI FIELD, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED STADIUM, Harrison, New Jersey
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Dance Parade 2025 is Once Again About Reclaiming the Freedom to Be Yourself

SIXTH AVE, 8TH ST, TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK, Chelsea, Greenwich Village, East Village, Manhattan
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New York African Film Festival 2025 Celebrates Fluid Horizons in Films from Mother Afrika

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER, Upper West Side, Manhattan
MAYSLES DOCUMENTARY CENTER, Harlem, Manhattan
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC (BAM), Fort Greene, Brooklyn
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1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair Shows African and African Diaspora Art

THE HALO, Financial District, Manhattan 🇧🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇩 🇫🇷 🇭🇰 🇮🇹 🇯🇵 🇳🇬 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

Bronx Week 2025 Features the Bronx Ball, Bronx Parade, Bronx Food & Arts Festival, Bronx Week Concert, and More

THE BRONX 🇺🇸 🇵🇷

Independent New York 2025 is the New Yorker of New York Art Fairs

SPRING STUDIOS, Tribeca, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇪🇹 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇷🇴 🇪🇸

PEN World Voices Festival 2025 Celebrates International Literature

GREENWICH VILLAGE, Manhattan

Youth America Grand Prix 2025 Gala Stars of Today and Tomorrow is Our Favorite Ballet in New York City

ALICE TULLY HALL, Lincoln Center, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇫🇷 🇪🇸

Jackie Robinson Day Celebrates the Day He Broke Major League Baseball’s Color Barrier in 1947

APRIL 15 🇺🇸

IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair 2025 Features an Immersive Installation by Mickalene Thomas and a Panel Discussion on Black Artists in Mexico

PARK AVENUE ARMORY, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇸

Tyshawn Sorey Trio Plays Their Newly Commissioned Max Roach Centennial Tribute

92ND STREET Y, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇺🇸

Doc Fortnight 2025, MoMA’s New Documentary Film Festival, Screens Many Latin Films

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇷🇴 🇪🇸

Dance on Camera Festival Tributes the Legendary Dancer and Actor Carmen de Lavallade

SYMPHONY SPACE, Upper West Side, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇸 🇹🇹

New York Fashion Week February 2025 Shows Women’s Fall Winter Collections

WEST EDGE, Chelsea, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🇵🇭 🇪🇸

Langston Hughes was a Harlem Renaissance Jazz Poet Who Spoke of Rivers

JOPLIN, Missouri, February 1, 1902 🇺🇸

Our Lady of Candelaria is the Patron Saint of the African Diaspora; Tenerife, Canary Islands; and Miners

SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, CANARY ISLANDS, Spain 🇪🇸 > 🇧🇴 🇨🇴 🇬🇹 🇵🇪 🇵🇭 🇵🇷

Winter Show 2025 is America’s Longest-Running Antiques Fair

PARK AVENUE ARMORY, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇨🇦 🇮🇹 🇵🇹 🇪🇸

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Taught Us to Love All People

ATLANTA, Georgia ~ January 15, 1929 🇺🇸

Mariah Carey “Christmas Time” in New York City

BARCLAYS CENTER, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn 🇻🇪 🇺🇸

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Legacy in Motion Honors Judith Jamison and Jody Gottfried Arnhold

NEW YORK CITY CENTER, Midtown, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇬🇫
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇺🇸

African Diaspora International Film Festival NYC Brings the Many Faces of Mother Afrika To New York City

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
CINEMA VILLAGE, Greenwich Village
LEONARD NIMOY THALIA, Upper West Side
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Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Latin Stars Include Dora the Explorer, Spider-Man, Natti Natasha, and Sebastián Yatra

UPPER WEST SIDE, MIDTOWN, HERALD SQUARE 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇵🇪 🇵🇭 🇵🇷 🇬🇧 🇻🇪

Boca Tuya Dances the 92nd Street Y, and If You Can Dance There, You Can Dance Anywhere

92nd Street Y, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇨🇳 🇨🇷 🇮🇱 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇵🇷

DOC NYC Documentary Film Festival Screens Films That Make You Think About What’s Going On All Around Us Right Now

IFC CENTER, SVA THEATRE, VILLAGE EAST BY ANGELIKA, West Village, Chelsea, East Village, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇮🇳 🇮🇱 🇳🇬 🇵🇸 🇸🇩

New York Comedy Festival Makes America Laugh Again

IT’S ALL OVER Chelsea, Midtown, Times Square Theater District, Upper East Side, Upper West Side, Washington Heights, Manhattan
Flatbush, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 🇺🇸 🇨🇻 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇮🇳 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇭 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇻🇪

Paul Taylor Dance Company Fall Season Features World Premieres by Robert Battle and Lauren Lovette Backed by the Orchestra of St. Luke’s

DAVID H. KOCH THEATER, Lincoln Center, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇲

Elizabeth Catlett was More Than a Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies, She was a Revolutionary Mexican Artist and a Revolutionary Woman Too

BROOKLYN MUSEUM, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn 🇺🇸 🇲🇽

International Creole Day, Jounen Kwéyòl, Celebrates the Rich Multicultural Heritage of the West Indies and the Caribbean

OCTOBER 28 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇬🇫 🇬🇾 🇭🇹 🇱🇨 🇹🇹 🇺🇳

New York City Wine and Food Festival (NYCWFF) Fundraises for God’s Love We Deliver Out of Brooklyn This Year, Oy Vey

BROOKLYN
North 🇺🇸 🇨🇷 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇵🇦
Caribe 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇯🇲 🇵🇷 🇹🇹
South 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇪 🇻🇪
Africa 🇬🇭 🇪🇹 🇲🇦 🇿🇦
Asia 🇨🇳 🇮🇳 🇱🇧 🇯🇵 🇵🇭

Sphinx Virtuosi Black and Latin Chamber Orchestra Plays American Musical Forms From Ragtime to Opera to New Music at Carnegie Hall

CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇻🇪

American Ballet Theatre Fall 2024 Features World Premieres of Helen Pickett’s “Crime and Punishment,” Gemma Bond, and Kyle Abraham

STREAMING World Ballet Day
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE, Lincoln Center, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 🇫🇷 🇰🇷 🇪🇸

New York Film Festival Screens the Year’s Most Anticipated Films at Lincoln Center and In The Boroughs

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER, Manhattan
ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE Cinema, Staten Island
BRONX MUSEUM OF THE ARTS, Concourse Village, The Bronx
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE, Astoria, Queens

Belongó Performs, Teaches, and Preserves Afro Latin Jazz

ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn: Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble, LaTasha Barnes, Soles of Duende 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇮🇳 🇪🇸
RIVERBANK STATE PARK, Hamilton Heights / West Harlem, Manhattan: Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra live music, youth workshops, salsa dance lessons 🇨🇺
BIRDLAND, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan: Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra 🇨🇺