Afropunk Brooklyn

The Afropunk Brooklyn festival has shape-shifted radically since it began in the mid-two-thousands as a grassroots celebration of Black alternative music rooted in punk. Now expanded, with a capacious spirit of community manifested in iterations around the world, Afropunk emphasizes the vastness of Black musical expression, with acts representing rap, soul, pop, rock, jazz, R. & B., and Afrobeats. This year’s summit at Commodore Barry Park, Sept. 10-11, marks Afropunk’s first home-town installment since 2019. The Nigerian pop singer Burna Boy and the hip-hop darlings the Roots, whose performance promises to encompass its storied career, headline. The festival offers a wellness initiative and a bevy of merchants, as well as sets from the prismatic rappers Earl Sweatshirt and Pink Siifu, the hip-hop miniaturist Tierra Whack, the indie-rock fusionist Bartees Strange, and the ferocious Tennessee rapper BbyMutha. (Commodore Barry Park.)