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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 ...
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 ...
Treasured carnival traditions derived from Caribbean history now appear at New York’s annual West Indian Labor Day Parade. Labor Day The post Caribbean traditions find new life each Labor Day at ...
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 ...
Junkanoo is a festival that was originated during the period of African chattel slavery in British American colonies.It is practiced most notably in The Bahamas, Jamaica and Belize, and historically in North Carolina and Miami, where there are significant settlements of West Indian people during the post-emancipation era.
In many West Indian countries, J'ouvert is observed before the daytime Carnival Mas or "Pretty Mas". Pretty Mas is the Carnival parade featuring colorful costumes which are often made of feathers, beads, gem stones, brightly coloured fabrics, glitter and other elaborate body adornments and is more popular while commercially publicized.
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Miami Broward Caribbean Carnival [56] Miami, FL — the second weekend in October, Columbus Day weekend. Hartford, CT – Established in 1962, the West Indian Independence Celebration carnival parade and free concert takes place the second week of August in downtown Hartford. Houston, Texas — usually the weekend around Fourth of July.