In “Portrait of Pigs,” artist Fatima Julien aims her camera at cops instead of protesters. — After a trip from Cuba when she was a college freshman, Fatima Julien traded her dad a box of cigars for her first camera: a Canon Rebel T6. She said he may have realized it was an unfair bargain later on but that she’d never return the camera. “I don’t…

The visuals are a fun expression of women’s desire. — In less than 24 hours, the “WAP” music video — a collaboration between two rap powerhouses Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B — has garnered over ten million views. The song’s virality comes as no surprise with lines like “I spit on his mic and now he’s tryna sign me,”…

She describes her activism as “staying defiant in all mediums.” — Brittany Talissa King, an activist and reporter, was the angriest she had ever been after seeing the back-to-back murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile by the hands of police less than 48 hours apart. “When I saw that, something in me snapped,” she said. King said that up until…

The rapper says she is expected to make “a full recovery.” — In a Instagram posted Wednesday, 25-year old rapper Megan Thee Stallion revealed she was shot last Sunday morning during an “intentional” altercation in Los Angeles. At 4:30 a.m., police responded to reports of disturbance outside a Hollywood Hills party, where witnesses told TMZ they heard arguing in an SUV followed…

Can my photograph be a death sentence, too? — “I see that you’re a journalist,” said the person who approached me, the whiteness of their press pass glinting in the sun. It must have been the Canon Rebel T7i swinging from my neck. Was I a rebel? Given the number of police who’d swarmed the crowd gathered at the…

Kelsey Moore is making history. — It’s been 22 years since the College of Arts and Sciences has a black woman as its valedictorian — the same amount of time Kelsey Moore has been on this earth. Moore, 22, didn’t know that the valedictorian position at NYU even existed until her junior year. She is now…

The pop star’s new record has had heads turning everywhere, for better or for worse. — Could you imagine a world where two vastly different Ariana Grande albums drop in less than six months of each other? Well no need to imagine, it’s here: thank u, next, the heavily trap-based album preceded by its titular single that name-dropped Grande’s famous exes, was released on Feb. 8…

The students want NYU to divest from Aramark, which has faced backlash for its inadequate dining services to prisons. — A little after one in the morning, students began to congregate on the first lower level of NYU’s Elmer Bobst Library. Sleeping bags, pillows, suitcases, clothes, and signs were strewn everywhere. …

This proudly anti-establishment musical collective is ready to make their mark. — If one had to describe psychedelic instrumental live band Octopus, you might call it a smooth drink that sticks to the insides of your throat. Or perhaps a jazzy cacophony of sounds that don’t lull you into a complacent calmness but instead is punctuated with a funky musical ambiance that…