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August

Browse features on Latin culture that takes place every August in New York City, including Indigenous, European, and African culture.

Things To Do in NYC in August

New York International Salsa Congress is NYC’s Labor Day Weekend Salsa and Bachata Dance Festival

New York International Salsa Congress (Burcu Akcakaya/Dreamstime)

NEW YORK MARRIOTT MARQUIS, Times Square Theater District, and offsite venues in Manhattan 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇨🇦 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇪🇸

International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition Should Never be Forgotten

International Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition (Derejeb/Dreamstime)

August 23 🇺🇸 🇧🇪 🇬🇧 🇩🇰 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇺🇳

US Open Tennis Championship is the Place to See and Be Seen at the End of Summer

US Open Tennis Grand Slam (Grigor Atanasov/Dreamstime)

USTA BILLIE JEAN KING NATIONAL TENNIS CENTER, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇧🇮 🇨🇱 🇨🇳 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇭🇰 🇮🇹 🇯🇵 🇱🇧 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇿🇦 🇪🇸 🇹🇼

Assumption of Mary Launches Summer Holidays in Europe

Assumption of Mary (Renáta Sedmákova/Adobe)

August 15 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇵🇾 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇪🇸

Roberto Clemente said, “If you have a chance to help others and fail to do so, you are wasting your time on this Earth”

Roberto Clemente (Bob Suir/Dreamstime)

CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, August 18, 1934 🇵🇷

19th Amendment Gave Women the Right to Vote in 1920, But That Right is Now at Risk

The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote on August 18, 1920 (PD, Library of Virginia/Wikimedia)

AUGUST 18, 1920 🇺🇸

Indian Independence Day in New York City

Indian Independence Day at the Red Fort in New Delhi (Asian Traveler/Dreamstime)

August 15, 1947 🇮🇳

India Day Parade NYC and Cultural Festival Celebrates Indian Independence

India Day Parade NYC (Wirestock/Dreamstime)

MADISON AVENUE 🇮🇳

Afropunk BLKTOPIA Weekend Flexes More Style Than an Entire Fashion Week

Afropunk (Horst Pezold/Dreamstime)

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Ecuadorian Festival of New York, Festival Ecuatoriano, Celebrates Ecuadorian Independence and Culture

Ecuadorian Festival New York Festival Equatoriano (Neil Harrison/Dreamstime)

FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK, Queens 🇪🇨

Augustus Caesar Renamed the Month of August After Himself

Augustus Caeser statue outside the Forum in Rome, Italy (ShopArtGallerycom/Dreamstime)

AUGUST 🇮🇹

Pachamama is the Andean New Year Celebration of Mother Earth

Pachamama (Kwasny221/Adobe)

AUGUST 1 🇦🇷 🇨🇱 🇧🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇪

National Dominican Day Parade

National Dominican Day Parade (Sergio Reyes/New York Latin Culture Magazine)

SIXTH AVENUE, Midtown, Manhattan 🇩🇴

Harlem Week Celebrates Black Culture in the Home of the Harlem Renaissance Which Defined American Culture

Harlem Week (Rick/Adobe)

HARLEM, CENTRAL PARK, MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, Manhattan 🇺🇸

Black August is a Celebration of Freedom

Black August (Jacob Lund/Adobe)

AUGUST 🇺🇸

Dominican Restoration Day Commemorates “El Grito de Capotillo” That Finally Led to Dominican Independence

Dominican Restoration Day, General Gregorio Luperón (Public Domain/Wikipedia)

DAJABÓN, Dominican Republic 🇩🇴

Ecuadorian Parade NYC Desfile Ecuatoriano Celebrates Ecuadorian Independence

Ecuadorian Parade NYC (Burt Johnson/Dreamstime)

ELMHURST, FOREST HILLS, FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK, JACKSON HEIGHTS, Queens 🇪🇨

Summer Streets NYC Provides Hundreds of Blocks of Car-Free Fun and Family Entertainment

Summer Streets NYC (Lei Xu/Dreamstime)

QUEENS, Vernon Blvd 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇵🇷
STATEN ISLAND, Forest Ave 🇲🇽 🇵🇷
MANHATTAN, Lafayette, Park Avenue, 110th St, Broadway
THE BRONX, Grand Concourse
BROOKLYN, Eastern Parkway

NYC Restaurant Week is a Great Time to Try Latin Restaurants with Family and Friends

NYC Restaurant Week (Monkey Business Images/Dreamstime)

Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island

Haitian Revolution was the Only Time in History an Enslaved People Freed Themselves and Founded a Nation

Haitian Revolution "Le Negres Marron" (Glenda Powers/Adobe)

August 22, 1791 🇭🇹

Hip Hop Day Commemorates the First Hip Hop Party in The Bronx

Hip Hop Day, DJ Kool Herc (Richard Alexander Caraballo/Wikimedia)

AUGUST 11, 1973 🇯🇲 🗽

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