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The West Indian Day Parade Carnival is an annual celebration of West Indian culture, held annually on around the first Monday of September in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. It is organized by the West Indian American Day Carnival Association (WIADCA).
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s West Indian American Day Parade kicked off Monday with thousands of revelers dancing and marching through Brooklyn in one of the world’s largest celebrations ...
The annual West Indian American Day Parade stepped off in New York City on Monday with brightly colored costumes, steel bands, flag waving and street dancing. The Brooklyn parade is the ...
West Indian Americans of the civilian employed population 16 years and over were 1,549,890. 32.6% were employed in Management, business, science, and arts occupations, 28.5% in Service occupations, 22.2% in Sales and office occupations, 6.1% in Natural resources, construction and maintenance occupations and 10.5% in Production, transportation ...
The West Indian American Day Parade has its roots in more traditionally timed, pre-Lent Carnival celebrations started by a Trinidadian immigrant in Manhattan around a century ago, according to the organizers. The festivities were moved to the warmer time of year in the 1940s.
Five people were shot as a result of a dispute as thousands celebrated West Indian American Day in Brooklyn on Monday, according to police. A high-ranking law enforcement source at the scene near ...
A West Indian is a native or inhabitant of the West Indies (the Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago). In the 1597 Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the term West Indian initially described the indigenous inhabitants of the West Indies, by 1661 the term defined "an inhabitant or native of the West Indies, of European origin or descent."
The parade, a popular Labor Day event, had kicked off hours earlier along Eastern Parkway, a main thoroughfare in Brooklyn. 1 of 5 people shot at New York's West Indian American Day Parade has ...