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 ...

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 ...

The Pinkster Stroll is not your average New York fashion show. The Pinkster Stroll is not your average New York fashion show. Participants of the Pinkster Stroll walked seven miles through Manhattan ...

Lavada Nahon of Peekskill conducts a hearth cooking demonstration during the Pinkster celebration at Fort Crailo state historic site Saturday, April 22, 2017, in Rensselaer, N.Y. Juneteenth became a ...

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 ...

ALBANY -- The Pinkster King is officially free to reign again. Two centuries after the Common Council banned the Carnival-like celebration of Pinkster -- which was growing increasingly popular in ...

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 gin has unveiled a new brand identity intended to differentiate the premium spirit from other pink gins in the burgeoning sub-category. The updated packaging, part of a six-figure investment, ...

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 ...