KINGSTON, N.Y. — The “Pinkster: Joy is an Act of Resistance” Festival returns this weekend with music, dance, performances and historical lectures focused on Black history and culture. Greer Smith, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Long before Juneteenth, enslaved and free Black New Yorkers celebrated African culture during a holiday that eventually made white people feel threatened. Pinkster (Dutch for Pentecost) marked the ...