BROOKLYN (WABC) -- The period was the 17th Century - 21 years after the first enslaved Africans were brought to North America. The celebration of Pinkster began in 1640. "When Dutch went to church to ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The annual Pinkster Festival at Philipsburg Manor in Sleepy Hollow, NY will take ...
ALBANY -- The Pinkster King is officially free to reign again. Two centuries after the Common Council banned the Carnival-like celebration of Pinkster -- which was growing increasingly popular in ...
Pinkster was originally a Dutch Pentecostal holiday, but enslaved Africans in New York and New Jersey adopted the tradition and it was considered as a Black holiday from the 1800s on. As Juneteenth ...
NEW YORK – Cheyney McKnight waited years to celebrate Pinkster. On a scorching Saturday morning in May, McKnight put on her tailor-made 18th-century Malian mud cloth dress and trekked 7 miles with a ...
KINGSTON, N.Y. — Transart’s “Pinkster: Joy is An Act of Resistance” offers a series of free events this weekend in Highland and Kingston, marking the Dutch-African celebration, concluding with a ...
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