JOPLIN, Missouri, February 1, 1902 🇺🇸
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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 🇻🇪 🇺🇸
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 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇮🇳 🇮🇱 🇳🇬 🇵🇸 🇸🇩
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 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 🇨🇺
VOLTA New York 2024 Promotes Collaboration, Commonality, and Cultural discourse
CHELSEA INDUSTRIAL, Chelsea, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇪 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇺🇾
Joyce Ballet Festival Jerome Robbins Tribute is Curated By City Ballet’s Tiler Peck
JOYCE THEATER, Chelsea, Manhattan🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇦🇷 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇸🇳 🇰🇷 🇪🇸
Hip Hop Day Commemorates the First Hip Hop Party in The Bronx
AUGUST 11, 1973 🇯🇲 🗽
Afribembé Festival, by the CCCADI, Joins Harlem Week’s A Great Day in Harlem
GENERAL GRANT NATIONAL MEMORIAL, Morningside Heights, Manhattan 🇭🇹 🇵🇷
World Orchestra Week is a Festival of International Youth Orchestras from Afghanistan, Africa, America, China, Europe, and Venezuela at Carnegie Hall
CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇦🇫 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇨🇳 🇨🇩 🇭🇺 🇰🇪 🇲🇿 🇳🇬 🇿🇦 🇺🇦 🇻🇪
Africa United Youth Orchestra Makes its Carnegie Hall Debut with South African Composers and Sopranos, plus Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”
CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇨🇩 🇰🇪 🇲🇿 🇳🇬 🇿🇦
Camille A. Brown Curates and Dances Black Joy at Harlem Stage
HARLEM STAGE, Manhattanville, West Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸
Juneteenth Celebration at the Brooklyn Museum Honors the Saddles and Soul of Black Western Culture
BROOKLYN MUSEUM, Prospect Park, Brooklyn 🇺🇸
Carnegie Hall Juneteenth Celebration with The Healing of the Nations Foundation Celebrates All American Freedom Day
CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇺🇸
Juneteenth Parade and Street Fair in Harlem Celebrates All American Freedom Day
116TH STREET, Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸
New York Philharmonic Concerts In the Parks are a Great Way to Start Summer
VAN CORTLANDT PARK, The Bronx
CENTRAL PARK, Manhattan
CUNNINGHAM PARK, Queens
PROSPECT PARK, Brooklyn
ST GEORGE THEATRE, Staten Island
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Governors Ball Now Has a Latin Side
FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK, Queens 🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🇭🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇷
On Yoruba New Year “E ku odun, eku iyedun”
JUNE 3 🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬
Brooklyn Film Festival is All About Immersion
WINDMILL STUDIOS, Greenpoint, Brooklyn 🇺🇸 🇩🇿 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇪🇬 🇫🇷 🇮🇱 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇸 🇪🇸 🇻🇪
Photoville, the Outdoor Photo Exhibition in All Five Boroughs, Captures New York City’s Diverse International Spirit
BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK, Brooklyn Heights 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇵🇭 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇻🇪
Midtown Dance 2024 Free Dance Lessons Outdoors in Greeley Square Plaza
GREELEY SQUARE PARK, Koreatown, Manhattan 🇧🇷 🇵🇷
George Floyd Changed the World
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota
Dance Theatre of Harlem Dances Classical Ballet with JOY
APOLLO THEATER, Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇭🇹 🇮🇹
nora chipaumire “ShebeenDUB” World Premiere Tryptich Nehanda Radio Opera, ShebeenDUB Performance, and DUB Dance Party at Harlem Stage
HARLEM STAGE, Manhattanville, West Harlem, Manhattan 🇿🇼 🇺🇸
Harlem International Film Festival 2024 Brings the Spotlight Uptown
THE FORUM AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Manhattanville, West Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇨🇼 🇸🇷
Lulada Club, Women’s Salsa Orchestra, Plays a Women’s Health Services Benefit at SOB’s
SOB’s Sounds of Brazil, Hudson, Square, Manhattan 🇨🇴 🇺🇸 🇵🇷
Bryant Park Dance Party 2024 Free Dance Lessons and Live Music for Dancing Salsa, R&B, Hustle, Bachata, Swing, and Motown
BRYANT PARK, Midtown, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
African Diaspora International Film Festival 2024 Caribbean Film Series Screens at Teachers College, Columbia University
TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Morningside Heights, Manhattan 🇧🇸 🇧🇧 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇯🇲 🇲🇶 🇵🇷 🇸🇷 🇹🇹
Anthony Blackwell Casa de Tango Explores the African Origins of Argentine Tango at the New Bronx Music Hall
BRONX MUSIC HALL ~ Tango’s African and Spanish Flamenco connections 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇪🇸
BALANCE ARTS CENTER, Chelsea, Manhattan, Tuesdays and 4th Saturdays
CENTRAL PARK, Manhattan ~ Casa de Tango, June-September Thursdays
Black Comic Book Festival Brings Creatives and Blerds Together with a Fun Cosplay Showcase
SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE, Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸
Ensemble Modern Plays International New Chamber Music Curated by Tania León at Carnegie Hall
CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇩🇪 ~ 🇨🇺 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇿🇦
Harlem Renaissance Reborn: Reimagining the Past, Igniting the Future Conference at Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE, Morningside Heights, Manhattan 🇺🇸
Conzo: A Look Back at The Bronx, 1977-84 Hip Hop and Salsa at Bronx Documentary Center
BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER, Melrose, The Bronx 🇺🇸 🇵🇷
Alonzo King LINES Ballet Presents “Deep River”
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER, Lincoln Square, Manhattan 🇺🇸
Ballet Hispánico at the 92nd Street Y Reimagines Flamenco, plus New York’s and Havana’s Latin Club Scenes
92ND STREET Y, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇪🇸
Frederick Douglass Brought the Meaning of the U.S. Constitution to Life
TALBOT COUNTY, Maryland ~ February 14, 1817 or 1818 🇺🇸
Dancing the 92nd Street Y Brings Modern Dance Companies Limón, Martha Graham, and Ailey II Back Home
92ND STREET Y, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🇵🇷
Joe Bataan, “The King of Latin Soul,” Plays a ¡Vaya! Dance Party at the David Rubenstein Atrium in Lincoln Center
DAVID RUBENSTEIN ATRIUM at Lincoln Center 🇵🇭 🇺🇸
Rosa Parks Kept Her Cool Which Made Her the Mother of the Freedom Movement
TUSKEGEE, Alabama, February 4, 1913 🇺🇸
Black History Month is American History Month
FEBRUARY 🇺🇸
New Orleans Mardi Gras Carnival Starts on Kings Day January 6
NEW ORLEANS, Lousiana 🇫🇷 🇭🇹 🇺🇸
Emancipation Proclamation is 161 Years Old
January 1, 1863 🇺🇸