Destinations

Afropunk Bahia 2022 Target Black Beyond Measure x Solution Sessions Afropunk Brooklyn 2022 Minneapolis 2022 Afropunk Miami 2022 Afropunk Sound Therapy Sessions Target x Afropunk Uncontained Atlanta Planet Afropunk Afropunk Joburg Festival Merch Afropunk HQ

Emicida, Baco Exu do Blues, Liniker, Psirico, Dawer x Damper, and other awesome names in black music will be making history at the great edition of AFROPUNK in Brazil. More than 20 hours of shows in two epic days.

AFROPUNK x Target “Black Beyond Measure” Solution Sessions: Thought-provoking conversations covering topics such as Uplifting our Communities Building, Black Businesses, Art and Education, Activism Through Art, Black Faces in Outdoor Spaces, Prioritizing Self Care, and Mental Health.

AFROPUNK BROOKLYN makes it's first return since 2019, recruiting headliners The Roots and Burna Boy. A celebration of Black joy and a testament to the resilience of the Brooklyn community, AFROPUNK touches down in Commodore Barry Park in Brooklyn on September 10th and 11th.

AFROPUNK's widening array of live events and experiences aim to build community through joyous expression, thought-provoking discussion, and celebratory musical performances. Welcome to Planet AFROPUNK Live: Minneapolis, the first-ever AFROPUNK live experience in the Midwest.

AFROPUNK is excited to announce the first ever Planet AFROPUNK Live Experience in Miami taking place from May 20-May 22 at The Urban, which is in the historic Overtown neighborhood.

AFROPUNK: Sound Therapy Sessions: Live music, deep conversations, and communal hope and healing are all on the table

UNCONTAINED presented by Target is the music journey of 5 dynamic black women performers whose style, vibe and attitude represents the dynamic unapologetic attitude that is AFROPUNK.

PLANET AFROPUNK will be a culmination of the triumph of the human will in 2021, it will be a celebration of how we were able to pick ourselves up and celebrate US!

AFROPUNK Joburg will bring together the vibrancy of a limited LIVE audience with the hyper connectivity of a larger digital family to celebrate New Year’s Eve in a huge global spectacular.

AFROPUNK exclusives, artist merch and more. This is all a dream. You will want memento to prove you were here.

We are a community connected by Music, Art, Activism, and more. AFROPUNK celebrates Black excellence across the diaspora and eschews systems of Sexism, Racism, Ableism, Homophobia, Fatphobia, and Transphobia with No Hatefulness.
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Experiences

Spinthrift Market Ideaville Bites&Beats Hair & Beauty Village Solution Sessions Activism Row Art & Times

Curated just for YOU - shop a market full of incredibly talented makers, selectors and curators from all across the diaspora. Look fly and make a statement while doing it.

Inspired by the idea of claiming your freedom; inspired by the change in season, the vibrancy of Miami and the hope laced within creating spaces and affirming voices: we present BLACK SPRING.

Food is essential for culture. Order from restaurants of the diaspora right to your door. Experience food demos featuring chefs, artists and DJ’s we love. Your souls will be fed.

Black hair is an art no matter how complex or simple the style. Our versatility exists throughout us, even in our follicles. The Hair & Beauty Village is an homage to Black hair in all its beauty.

Explore the complexities of identity for these communities; with social salons and content that features dynamic orators and personalities who, instead of talking at audiences, lead collaborative, solution-based discussions.

Activism Row is home to agitators, activators, and resistors alike. Spend time with organizers and non-profit organizations doing great work. Let’s learn from each other and take action against global injustices. We got us.

Art & Times a digital gallery experience for you featuring some of our favorite visual artists from around the world. It is the space for artists to use their talents to cement love and demands into expression. These expressions become a blueprint to our liberation.
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Activism Row

Activism Row is home to agitators, activators, and resistors alike. Spend time with organizers and non-profit organizations doing great work. Activism Row is the manifestation of the phrase, “we got us”. Let’s learn from each other and take action against global injustices.

Featured

Transition & Triumph In Memorium video w/ Bootsy Collins

Presented in Partnership with AARP

Solution Sessions: Prison Reform w/ Inez Bordeaux, Jae Shepherd, James Lopez, Jesse Williams, Judith Browne Davis, Maria Fernandez

A conversation led by grassroots organizers who will share their community strategies and besplanet-afro-punk-bucket-prodelop a roadmap for overhauling our criminal legal system. Featuring thought leaders, activists, and educators from Advancement Project, Close the Workhouse Coalition, and Power U.

The Edge of the Frame: Shawn Holmes

Shawn Holmes, A Milwaukee EMT, firefighter and nursing student describes the challenges of his work in response to COVID-19, and explains why voting is important to first responders. The Edge of the Frame: A Black Voter Engagement Video Project is Directed By Jordan Thomas Produced by Emerald Media

The Edge of the Frame: King Bethel

King Bethel, A 14 year-old performer and student speaks of his love of Detroit, singing at a Pistons game, and why he wishes he could vote.

The Edge of the Frame: Marcella Riley

Marcella Riley, A retired Milwaukee NAACP secretary expresses her frustration at not being able to do what she always does during election season – take seniors to the polls during the pandemic – and what she’ll do instead to get out the vote.

The Edge of the Frame: Kristal Reyes

Kristal Reyes, A Detroit clinical social worker in long-term recovery enumerates the reasons why she votes.

The Edge of the Frame: Anita Johnson

Anita Johnson, The Wisconsin ID Coalition Coordinator for VoteRiders describes her work and the tough choice Milwaukeeans had to make during the April 7 primary.

The Edge of the Frame: Kwasi Stampley

Kwasi Stampley, A musician, student, and grocery store employee discusses life in Milwaukee during the pandemic and why he votes. Music: That’s What I Believe (instrumental) by K-STAMP.

The Edge of the Frame: Craig Samuel

Craig Samuel, A Brooklyn entrepreneur speaks about the challenges of running restaurants during the pandemic, surviving the virus, and the importance of voting.

The Edge of the Frame: Laura Canty-Samuel

Laura Canty-Samuel, A Brooklyn comedy writer, comedian and digital producer discusses the importance of artists in this time, her empathy for younger people, and why it’s important to vote.

The Edge of the Frame: David Rose

David Rose, A Philadelphia urban designer explains why voting and policymaking are critical to the planning of our cities. Music: Empty by Anahata

The Edge of the Frame: Jasmine Thompson

Jasmine Thompson, A Philadelphia urban farmer discusses her work to improve our food system and how her vote affects her work.

The Edge of the Frame: Iye Yin Dae

Iye Yin Dae, A Philadelphia artist, musician, and teacher speaks of his skepticism of the political process, why he votes, and his hopes for his students. Music: The Saints by Iye Yin Dae

The Edge of the Frame: Silver Moore

Silver Moore, A Detroit educator and entrepreneur discusses the impact of her work and her vote.

Angela Davis Speaks on 'Freedom and Democracy'

Professor, activist and author Angela Davis talked to us at our AFROPUNK Joburg festival. Journalist and culture editor Danielle Bowler delve deep into topics democracy and freedom. As she does, Ms. Davis dropped a wealth of knowledge and commentary on the state of Blackness and freedom in 2020.

Organizations

Equal Justice Initiative

The Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.

Impact Justice

Impact Justice is a national innovation and research center advancing new ideas and solutions for justice reform. We work to dramatically reduce the massive number of youth and adults in our justice system, improve conditions and outcomes for those who are incarcerated, and provide meaningful opportunities for formerly incarcerated people to rejoin their communities.

The Bail Project

Featuring: Power U School discipline policies are pushing Black and Brown kids out of the classroom and into the criminal legal system. Join this community conversation to share your solutions to how we can disrupt these practices and redirect resources to students and families so they can thrive.

Black Futures Lab

40,000+ Black people have died from Covid-19. Black unemployment is the highest it's been in a decade. And white supremacist violence is on the rise. We know that voting won’t solve all our problems overnight, but in the fight for our liberation, we’ve got to use every tool we have. And our vote, is our next and best tool to unrig the rules that have harmed our communities for so long. There's just too much at stake to sit this election out. Take action with us and Pledge to Vote.

TJI Justice Project

TGIJP works in collaboration with others to forge a culture of resistance and resilience to strengthen us for the fight against human rights abuses, imprisonment, police violence, racism, poverty, and societal pressures. We seek to create a world rooted in self- determination, freedom of expression, and gender justice.

African-American Policy Forum

African American Policy Forum (AAPF) is an innovative think tank that connects academics, activists, and policymakers to promote efforts in dismantling structural inequality. AAPF founded the #SayHerName Campaign in 2014 to amplify the excluded stories of Black women, femmes, and girls killed at the hands of state-sanctioned violence and to advance discourse surrounding the overlooked details of racist police acts.

BLDPWR

Co-founded by Kendrick Sampson, Mike de la Rocha, and Tia Oso, BLD PWR engages pop culture, education, and activism to build and train an inclusive community of entertainers and athletes to advance radical social change. BLD PWR partners with grassroots causes and organizations at the intersection of gender, immigration, economic, educational, environmental and racial justice movements

Color of Change

Color Of Change is the nation’s largest online racial justice organization. We help people respond effectively to injustice in the world around us, design campaigns powerful enough to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back and champion solutions that move us all forward. As a national online force driven by 7 million members, we move decision-makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people in America

Know Your Rights Camp

Know Your Rights Camp advances the liberation and well-being of Black and Brown communities through education, self-empowerment, mass-mobilization and the creation of new systems that elevate the next generation of change leaders. KYRC also houses a Legal Defense Initiative for those who have been arrested or are victims of police brutality while fighting injustice across the nation, in addition to providing COVID-19 relief to those disproportionately affected by the current pandemic.

BU Center for Antiracist Research

The mission of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research is to convene researchers and practitioners from various disciplines to figure out novel and practical ways to understand, explain, and solve seemingly intractable problems of racial inequity and injustice. We foster exhaustive racial research, research-based policy innovation, data-driven educational and advocacy campaigns, and narrative-change initiatives. We are working toward building an antiracist society that ensures equity and justice for all.

Movement for Black Lives

The Movement for Black Lives is an ecosystem of individuals and organizations creating a shared vision and policy agenda to win rights, recognition, and resources for Black people. In doing so, the movement makes it possible for us, and therefore everyone, to live healthy and fruitful lives. The movement is driven by leadership anchored to six tables: Policy Demands, Organizing & Base Building, Electoral Justice Project, The Rising Majority, and Culture & Resource.

Close the Workhouse Coalition

The Close the Workhouse campaign aims to attack mass incarceration, without legitimizing or justifying the continued caging of people as punishment. We call for the closure of the Medium Security Institute, better known in St. Louis as the Workhouse, an end to wealth based pretrial detention, and the reinvestment of the money used to cage poor people and Black people into rebuilding the most impacted neighborhoods in this region.

Power U

We are organizing and developing the leadership of Black and Brown youth and Black women in South Florida so that they may help lead the struggle to liberate all oppressed people.

Advancement Project National Office

Advancement Project is a next generation, multi-racial civil rights organization. Rooted in the great human rights struggles for equality and justice, we exist to fulfill America’s promise of a caring, inclusive and just democracy. We use innovative tools and strategies to strengthen social movements and achieve high impact policy change.