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 ...

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 2025: Joy is an Act of Resistance Festival will take place in Uptown on Sunday, June 8, from noon to 5 p.m. The Afro-Dutch tradition born in the Hudson Valley ...

Each spring in 18th-century New York, Dutch colonists and their African slaves discarded their roles for a few days to observe a cross-cultural holiday. Next Sunday, visitors to Philipsburg Manor can ...

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 ...

Holidays used to burst out, like spring daisies, all over the calendar. Alas, our months are becoming less fertile. Christmas, once a 12-day festival, has been reduced to a single date. Lincoln and ...