"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 ...

Barry Michael Cooper, the screenwriter behind the influential “Harlem Trilogy” of films New Jack City, Sugar Hill and Above the Rim and the man who coined the term New Jack Swing, has died. He was 66.

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 ...

The Harlem journalist who coined the phrase “New Jack Swing” while writing a profile passed away in Maryland. There is no discussion of 1990s-era Black movies without films written by Barry Michael ...

Barry Michael Cooper, the acclaimed screenwriter ... in 1987, he coined the term “New Jack Swing” to refer to the then-nascent genre of R&B music fused with hip hop popularized by producer ...

There is no discussion of 1990s-era Black movies without films written by Barry Michael Cooper ... was known for having coined the phrase “new jack swing” in a 1988 profile for “The Village ...