BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Family-friendly events across all 5 boroughs! Save this list ✨

🗽 Manhattan

• Feb 1–8  Children’s Museum of Manhattan
  Storytelling and read-aloud celebrating Black history and creativity. 
  Ages 5+ | 🎫$18

• Feb 8, 10–11:30 AM Tenement Museum
  Exploring the lives of Black New Yorkers in the 1860s. 🎫

• Feb 21, 12–2 PM – New-York Historical Society

         Living History: Prove it on Ma Rainey (Mother of the Blues) – music and artifacts 

• Feb 28 & Mar 1, 11 AM–5 PM – New-York Historical Society 

         Clothing of Enslaved Women & Reclaiming Black Humanity.  

• Feb 28–Mar 15 (Sat & Sun) 11 AM–12 PM & 2:30–3:30 PM Theatre Row

         The Hula Hoopin’ Queen: The Musical - A joyful Harlem-set musical celebrating

         family and community.

         Ages 5+ | 🎫$29.50+

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🏙 Bronx

• Jan 13–Mar 1 – Everett Children’s Adventure Garden, New York Botanical Garden
  Learn about influential Black figures and create hands-on nature crafts.

• Feb 21, 11 AM–12 PM – Crotona Nature Center

         Black History Month Nature Poetry Hike.  Free

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🌉 Brooklyn

• Feb 7 – Museum of Food and Drink
  Feeding Freedom 🎫$18

• Feb 7, 11 AM–2 PM – City Point Brooklyn
  The Snowy Day Literacy Village - Ezra Jack Keats’ classic book., FREE

• Feb 15–21, 10 AM–5 PM – Brooklyn Children’s Museum

         Black Future Festival - Art, music, dance, and imagination-building activities

• Feb 15, 3 PM – Barclays Center
  Harlem Globetrotters 100-Year Tour: High-energy basketball entertainment

        🎫 $41+

• Feb 17, 3–4 PM – Golden Age of Brooklyn
  Kids Create: Black History Month, ages 6–12 Free

• Feb 22, 1–2:30 PM – Brooklyn Bridge Park
  Guided walk exploring Brooklyn’s role in abolitionist history. Free

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👑 Queens

• Feb 7, 1–4 PM – King Manor Museum

​        Reading circles, art-making, and learning about Black historical figures.  Free

• Feb 14, 12–4 PM – Lewis Latimer House
  S.T.E.A.M Saturday: inspired by inventor Lewis Latimer. Free

• Feb 17 & 18, 7 PM / Feb 27 & 28, 8 PM – Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning
  West African Dance Workshops led by professional companies.  $15–$20

• Feb 20, 1–4 PM – King Manor Museum
  Celebrate Frederick Douglass with reading circles and crafts.  Free

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🏝 Staten Island

• Feb 7, 2–5 PM – Snug Harbor Cultural Center
  4th Annual Black History Month Painting with Soul - Art-making, music, dance, and community celebration.  Free

• Feb 15, 11 AM–12:30 PM – Stapleton Waterfront Park
  Learn about the Black oystermen of Sandy Ground with Urban Park Rangers. Free

• Feb 20, 4–4:45 PM – Staten Island Children’s Museum
  Steel drum performance rooted in Afro-Trinidadian history.  Free with museum admission ($8)

• Feb 21, 2–3:30 PM – Staten Island Museum
  Afrocentric dance and storytelling honoring Black legacy and culture.
  $25 adults | $10 children 5+ | Children under 5 free