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WE SEE YOU! Afropunk Reveals 2019 Lineup with Jill Scott, FKA Twigs, Santigold and More!

WE SEE YOU! Afropunk Reveals 2019 Lineup with Jill Scott, FKA Twigs, Santigold and More!

Other performers include Kamasi Washington, Leon Bridges, Gary Clark Jr., Lianne La Havas and Masego.
Photos: 2019 National Black Writers Conference

Photos: 2019 National Black Writers Conference

This year's conference spotlighted screenwriters and playwrights
Celebrate Art, Spring, Love with Shakespeare on Stratford

Celebrate Art, Spring, Love with Shakespeare on Stratford

Brave New World Theatre is celebrating the poet's birthday with sonnets, madrigals and dance on East Flatbush's Stratford Road
Bushwick Students Tackle Climate Change and Habitat Loss in New Play

Bushwick Students Tackle Climate Change and Habitat Loss in New Play

The students' plays portray how pollution, deforestation, storms and heat waves threaten our survival, and how we can find solutions together
Weeksville Art Exhibit Explores What it Means to Be Female, Black and Human

Weeksville Art Exhibit Explores What it Means to Be Female, Black and Human

Brooklyn artist Imani Shanklin Roberts takes viewers on a journey into self-discovery and shares her vision of holistic femininity in the 21st Century
BAM Reveals Expansion Plans Along Fulton Street

BAM Reveals Expansion Plans Along Fulton Street

The expansion will connect three of BAM's spaces, make the Harvey Theater more accessible, and add an art gallery and terrace.
Disturbingly Beautiful: Irondale’s New Play Is on a Gory Quest for Love

Disturbingly Beautiful: Irondale’s New Play Is on a Gory Quest for Love

Concepts of love, trust and greed take centerstage in a play that pushes the audience to leave their comfort zone
BRIC's Festival of Ideas Returns to Explore Social Justice Through Art

BRIC's Festival of Ideas Returns to Explore Social Justice Through Art

The free four-day festival boasts a full program of theatrical and musical performances, conversations, art exhibits and more.
This Bilingual Brooklyn Jazz Project Just Won a Grammy!

This Bilingual Brooklyn Jazz Project Just Won a Grammy!

Lucy Kalantari and The Jazz Cats' swinging record "All The Sounds" scored a Grammy in the category Best Children's Album
Erykah Badu Is Coming to Brooklyn, and She's Bringing H.E.R.

Erykah Badu Is Coming to Brooklyn, and She's Bringing H.E.R.

The neo-soul veteran will be joined by one of R&B's most exciting new voices at the Barclays Center