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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — TRANSART’s “Pinkster 2025: Joy is an Act of Resistance” festival returns to the Uptown, Sunday, June 8, from noon to 5 p.m. at Old Dutch Church. Greer Smith, founder and CEO of ...

RENSSELAER, N.Y. >> The Crailo State Historic Site in Rensselaer was filled with guests Saturday during a Pinkster Festival. Once a Dutch holiday commemorating Pentecost, Pinkster became a distinctly ...

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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