Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
First responders tend to a man injured during a shooting at the West Indian Parade in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Sept. 2, 2024.
Man fatally shot amid Monday night parties near West Indian Day Parade route; series of violent incidents mars Brooklyn celebrations Kerry Burke, Colin Mixson, New York Daily News Updated ...
A suspect has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a man amid post-West Indian American Day Parade parties in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, on Monday night, according to police. Sergio Codrington, 39 ...
Woman in costume in the 2009 New York City parade. David Dubinsky, Nelson Rockefeller, and Robert F. Wagner Jr. watch the 1959 Labor Day Parade. Jessie Waddell and some of her West Indian friends started the Carnival in Harlem in Upper Manhattan, New York City, in the 1930s by staging costume parties in large, enclosed places such as the Savoy, Renaissance and Audubon Ballrooms due to the cold ...
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an African-American man, was killed in an attempted arrest by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota.A video of the incident, depicting the officer kneeling on Floyd's neck for an extended period, attracted widespread outrage leading to local, national, and international protests and demonstrations.
The parade routinely attracts huge crowds, who line the almost 2-mile (3.2-kilometer) route that runs from Crown Heights to the Brooklyn Museum. The event has its roots in more traditionally timed ...
The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association Riot, also known as the City Hall Riot, was a rally organized and sponsored by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association of the City of New York (PBA) held on September 16, 1992, to protest mayor David Dinkins' proposal to create a civilian agency to investigate police misconduct.
The Brooklyn parade is the culmination of carnival week and one of the world’s largest celebrations of Caribbean culture. A separate street party known as J’Ouvert, commemorating freedom from ...