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

After chronicling the crack boom of the 1980s as an investigative reporter, he had a high-profile but brief second career in ...

He also coined the term “New Jack Swing,” a name that defined a fusion of R&B and Hip-Hop music in the late ’80s and early ’90s. Barry Michael Cooper continued to expand his influence as a ...

He invented the term 'New Jack Swing' and wrote the scripts for 'New Jack City', 'Above the Rim', and 'Sugar Hill'.

Barry Michael Cooper, the screenwriter behind the influential “Harlem Trilogy” of films New Jack City, Sugar Hill and Above the ... and became hugely influential on hip hop music and culture. Born in ...

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 Teddy Riley and acts like Bobby Brown, Kool Moe Dee and Janet ...

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 in The Village Voice and ...

Founder of the New Jack Swing movement (fusing electro-hip-hop production and contemporary urban R&B), Sweat has had 12 top 10 R&B singles and seven No. 1 hits.

Winter is in full swing, and along with the cold weather and snow flurries, there are also plenty of concerts taking over St. Louis in February.