The West Indian American Day Parade: A Caribbean Celebration

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The West Indian American Day Parade: A Caribbean Celebration
Alina Doodnath
Mon, 09/02/2024 – 13:31

The West Indian American Day Parade 2024 will kick off Monday in New York City, with thousands of revellers dancing and marching along Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway in one of the world’s largest celebrations of Caribbean culture.

Now in its 57th year, the annual Labor Day event turns the borough’s Eastern Parkway into a kaleidoscope of feather-covered costumes and colourful flags as participants make their way down the thoroughfare alongside floats stacked high with speakers playing soca and reggae music.

The event 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.

With some images in association with LiveWalkingNYC.

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