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Learn about the historical and cultural significance of Pinkster with Lavada Nahon, the Interpreter of African American History at NYS Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Sites! Connected to New York’s Black history is the oldest African celebration in the nation. During Pinkster celebrations, enslaved and free Africans gathered around the colony and state to rest, renew family and friendship ties, and reconnect to a European faith that had been transformed in West Central Africa. Choices made by the Black community as they moved from property to people lessened Pinkster’s importance but did not erase its historic significance. Reclaiming Pinkster with Lavada Nahon is an hour-long, in-person lecture that will dissect what Pinkster was, and why celebrating it expands the humanity of the enslaved and the lives of their descendants. Date: Thursday, May 21, 2026 Time: 6pm-7pm Cost: Free Registration required? Yes, register via Eventbrite! Location: Dyckman Farmhouse Museum (on the corner of 204th Street and Broadway) Lavada Nahon is the Interpreter of African American History for the Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation, Bureau of Historic Sites. A position she has held since its inception in 2019. With nearly 30 years of public history experience, she focuses on New Netherland and New York, 17th through 19th centuries, specifically, the lives and cultures of Africans and their descendants, enslaved and free. As a culinary and cultural historian, she has worked for a wide variety of historic sites and organizations around the tri-state region. Her mission is to bring history to life by giving presence to the Africans and people of African descent enslaved and free, in New Netherland and New York in whatever way possible. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Alliance's programs are made possible by The Cowles Charitable Trust and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Twice a year, Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Alliance invites notable scholars and community leaders to share their groundbreaking work on cultural history, racial identity, and social justice in a free lecture series, Talking About Race Matters (TARM). Each TARM series brings together two lectures centered around one theme. This March, both lectures will explore the cultural and political contributions of Black women musicians in America. Unlike previous years, TARM will not be a purely virtual experience. We are teaming up with Inwood Library to bring you a free, in-person community livestream and discussion of both lectures! Here, you are watching the second and last TARM lecture of our March series featuring Dr. Daphne A. Brooks. Daphne A. Brooks is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Black Studies, American Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Music at Yale University. She is the author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910 and Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound. This lecture explores the enduring significance of Beyonce’s pathbreaking 2016 album Lemonade as 2026 marks the 10th anniversary of its release. Through an examination of New Orleans culture and Lemonade’s (or “this visual album’s) formidable meditations on the afterlives of slavery, Dr. Daphne A. Brooks will showcase the lasting impact of an instant pop music classic and cultural phenomenon. This is "TARM March 2026: The Song of Our Freedom: Black Music in America" in celebration of Women's History Month and the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and in partnership with the Inwood Library.

Dyckman Farmhouse Museum relies on people like you to fulfill our mission to preserve this historic site, to be a catalyst for engaging and adventuresome programming, and to be a good neighbor and dynamic resource for our community. Your support is crucial to our ability to provide our Upper Manhattan community with free and engaging public programs and exhibitions, from our Pinkster celebration to our Games Week children's program to our annual Fall Festival. Please consider how you can support Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, whether by making a gift, volunteering your time, or attending a program. However you are able to provide it, your help will allow Dyckman Farmhouse Museum to serve our neighbors and visitors for years to come. Learn more at dyckmanfarmhouse.org

Twice a year, Dyckman Farmhouse Museum hosts Talking About Race Matters (TARM), a FREE three-part virtual lecture series where notable community leaders and esteemed scholars share their groundbreaking research on cultural history, racial identity, and social justice. Each TARM series is grounded in a unifying theme. For this Hispanic Heritage Month, all three TARM lectures will explore the history and formation of Afro-Caribbean identity. Join us for the third and FINAL session of Talking About Race Matters 2025 featuring Dr. Sophia Monegro, a literary scholar working at the intersection of Black Women’s Intellectual History, Dominican Studies, and Digital Humanities. She will be presenting “Archival Justice: Black Dominican Studies Archive-Building across Samaná, Puerto Plata, and Ayiti.” This presentation introduces restorative justice and community-engaged approaches to building Black archives. You will learn about: the “We Choose Freedom: Samaná, Dominican Republic,” a digital collection documenting the papers of African American descendant Samaneses; the “Guerilla Archiving Program” currently based in Puerto Plata; and the forthcoming digital archive “Cimarronas: A Black Woman’s Archive of Ayiti/Quisqueya” a trilingual platform aimed at making Black women’s histories, as they traveled across the Atlantic, Caribbean, and South America from the 16th to 19th centuries, accessible to diverse audiences using interactive animations, digital mapping tools, primary documents, multimedia essays, and site-based micro documentaries. Dr. Sophia Monegro earned a PhD in African and African Diaspora Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Currently, Dr. Monegro is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Equity at Washington University in St. Louis. Monegro’s research agenda democratizes access to archives that help account for Black intellectual production in the Atlantic world. Dyckman Farmhouse Museum’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Talking about Race Matters is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Twice a year, Dyckman Farmhouse Museum hosts Talking About Race Matters (TARM), a FREE three-part virtual lecture series where notable community leaders and esteemed scholars share their groundbreaking research on cultural history, racial identity, and social justice. Each TARM series is grounded in a unifying theme. For this September-October (Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!), all three TARM lectures will explore the history and formation of Afro-Caribbean identity. Join us for the second TARM lecture featuring Dr. Yalidy Matos, Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, as she presents her newest research, "Living Afro-Latina Lives: An Afrodiasporic Feminist Approach to Understanding Political Consciousness." "Living Afro-Latina Lives: An Afrodiasporic Feminist Approach to Understanding Political Consciousness" explores how Afro-Latinas— whether born in the U.S. or abroad but primarily residing in the United States—identify and construct their identities, and how they engage with broader identity categories. Crucially, the work traces the shift from individual identification to the development of an intersectional Afro-Latina political consciousness. This consciousness isn’t just about how they see themselves—it’s about how they act, what they believe, and how they engage politically. Rooted in Black feminist thought, this intersectional Afro-Latina political consciousness has real consequences for political attitudes and behavior. This works examines how identity becomes action, and how Afro-Latina lives illuminate the power of lived experience in shaping political life. Yalidy Matos is Associate Professor of political science at Rutgers University – New Brunswick. Her scholarship sits at the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, and politics, immigration, and identity politics. Her book Moral and Immoral Whiteness in Immigration Politics (OUP) was published in 2023. She graduated from Ohio State University in Columbus, OH with a PhD in Political Science in 2015, and Connecticut College in New London, CT with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Gender and Women’s Studies in 2009. Dyckman Farmhouse Museum's programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Talking about Race Matters is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Twice a year, Dyckman Farmhouse Museum hosts Talking About Race Matters (TARM), a FREE three-part virtual lecture series where notable community leaders and esteemed scholars share their groundbreaking research on cultural history, racial identity, and social justice. Each TARM series is grounded in a unifying theme. For this September-October (Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!), all three TARM lectures will explore the history and formation of Afro-Caribbean identity. Join us for the first TARM lecture featuring Dr. Lissette Acosta Corniel, an associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean studies in the Department of Ethnic and Race Studies at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. She will be presenting "Genesis of Blackness in the Americas: Santo Domingo, A Passport to Black Caribbean Culture and Identity," a conversation about the first Black people to arrive in the Caribbean and how Santo Domingo (or La Española) played a key role as the main port of entry for the Transatlantic Slave Trade, leading to one of the largest diasporic Black communities and each with a distinct sense of belonging through identity preservation, development, and adaptation. Dr. Lissette Acosta Corniel's work focuses on gender, slavery, and resistance in early colonial Hispaniola and Santo Domingo. She is the editor of the book Transatlantic Bondage: Slavery and Freedom in Spain, Santo Domingo, and Puerto Rico (SUNY Press, 2024). She was the research associate of the www.firstblacks.org database, and is the co-creator and co-director of the faculty-student research program Black Studies Across the Americas (https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/black-studies-across-the-americas/).She is currently working on her next book, Bad Women, Contested Freedoms: Feminist Behavior in 16th Century Hispaniola. Dyckman Farmhouse Museum's programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Talking about Race Matters is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.