(The Root) — Filmmakers Suki Hawley, Michael Galinsky and others delve into the land wars of New York’s quickest changing landscape, Brooklyn, in their latest documentary, Battle for Brooklyn. The film focuses on the efforts of activist Daniel Goldstein to stop the demolition of his apartment and neighborhood to make way for the gargantuan Atlantic…

(The Root) — This Friday, Sept. 21, join a group of prominent educators during this year’s Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference as they discuss effective solutions for improving and sustaining black male achievement in American schools. The Journal of Negro Education‘s Dr. Ivory A. Toldson, who has also partnered with The Root to offer…

(The Root) — Hip-hop maven Kanye West is back this week with a new album, and this time the rapper-producer is joined by his swag-laden crew. Cruel Summer, a collaborative effort between West and members of his record label, GOOD Music — including Big Sean, Pusha T, Kid Cudi and Common, is arguably one of…

(The Root) — Even in today’s not-so-post-racial landscape, skin color plays a large and political role. From medicine to social sciences, our skin color has arguably become an essential trait in our being. Nina G. Jablonski’s Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color delivers an open, frank and important dialogue on the…

(The Root) — New York’s International Center of Photography will examine the legacy of apartheid in South Africa in its forthcoming show “Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life.” Curators Okwui Enwezor and Rory Bester have organized an exhibition that, through more than 500 photographs, helps illustrate the menacing rise…

(The Root) — Songstress Alicia Keys is back with visuals for the uplifting piano ballad “Not Even the King,” the newest single from her forthcoming album, Girl on Fire. The singer, who recently sang this slow jam in the Stand Up to Cancer telethon, is also fresh from her “Girl on Fire” performance at the 2012…

In How Clubbing Changed the World, actor Idris Elba (The Wire and Luther) explores how United Kingdom’s dance music and its accompanying nightclub culture became “the most significant British cultural export in the last 20 years” and helped change popular culture across the globe. The recent documentary, which Elba both narrated and executive-produced, debuted on…

(The Root) — Author Sohail Daulatzai delves into the movement of the black Islamic Diaspora throughout the second half of the 20th century in his latest book, Black Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black Freedom Beyond America, from a post-9/11 perspective. Through thoughtful and poignant investigation, Daulatzai highlights the shared, “radical imagination” between…