"It was a mix of everything that was great about Black culture," a Hofstra professor says of the genre, which burned bright ...

Barry Michael Cooper, a writer who penned the screenplay for New Jack City and reportedly coined the phrase “New Jack Swing,” has died. Barry Michael Cooper’s other works include writings ...

The Harlem journalist who coined the phrase “New Jack Swing” while writing a profile passed away in Maryland. There is no ...

Barry Michael Cooper, the journalist who coined the term “New Jack Swing” to describe the music Teddy Riley was making during the ’80s and wrote the screenplays for influential movies like New Jack ...

Michael Jackson’s debut solo album had some Jackson ... who’d played a major role in developing the new jack swing genre in the late ’80s and early ’90s. On Dangerous, Riley helps carve ...

American screenwriter, journalist, and director Barry Michael Cooper breathed his ... During this time, he wrote his book Teddy Riley's New Jack Swing: Harlem Gangsters Raise a Genius on the ...