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African American News

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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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

African Diaspora International Film Festival 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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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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Between Riverside and Crazy Goes to Broadway

HAYES THEATER, Times Square Theater District, Manhattan ~ Pulitzer Prize-winning New York playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis (“The Get Down”) has New York City in his veins. 🇺🇸 🇩🇴 🇮🇪 🇮🇹 🇵🇷

Little Island’s Music & Dance Festival 2022 Taps Into Multicultural NYC

FESTIVAL
Tap, Broadway, Classical, Flamenco, Gospel, Indian Classical Dance, Jazz, R&B, Rumba
July 20-31, 2022
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PERCUSSIVE DANCE
Friday-Saturday, July 22-23, 2022
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GENERATION DANCE
Sunday, July 24 & 31, 2022
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LITTLE ISLAND
Hudson River Park
Meatpacking District

LAMC 2022 Brings Great Latin Alternative Artists to NYC

Tuesday-Saturday, July 5-9, 2022
DROM, SOB’S, CONEY ISLAND AMPHITHEATER, RUMSEY PLAYFIELD
East Village, Hudson Square, Coney Island, Central Park
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Hi-Ho Puppet Fringe NYC is Here, Yaaaay!

THE CLEMENTE
Lower East Side
Wednesday-Sunday, August 11-15, 2021

MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
El Barrio, East Harlem
Thursday, August 12, 2021

VIRTUAL
August 16-31, 2021

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