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

Cooper was more than a screenwriter. He was a storyteller whose pen immortalized Harlem’s struggles and triumphs. With New ...

After the publication of his story about “Teddy Riley’s New Jack Swing: Harlem Gangsters Raise a Genius,” he was credited with coining the emerging hybrid of R&B and rap as “New Jack Swing.” ...

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

In his first piece of legislation, President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law Wednesday ... without permanent U.S. legal status. The new administration has also canceled refugee ...

Jan-Ole Gerster’s Thriller ‘Islands,’ Starring Sam Riley, Stacy Martin and Jack Farthing, Boarded by Protagonist (EXCLUSIVE) Leo Barraclough January 29, 2025 at 7:00 AM ...

The New York Mets made two big additions to their starting rotation this winter. They also brought back Sean Manaea. However, they could still use a true ace to lead the way. The Mets signed ...

He’s going to talk loudly and swing whatever stick he has at hand ... bumptious and assertive in a way we haven’t seen perhaps since Teddy Roosevelt. This is not to suggest that Trump has ...

He was 66. In Black pop cultural circles, Cooper was known for having coined the phrase “new jack swing” in a 1988 profile for “The Village Voice” on Teddy Riley. The sound would come to ...

Ibarra picked up a minor citation in New York for operating a scooter without a license and, later, a shoplifting case in Georgia about four months before Riley died. Last year Gallego’s ...

Barry Michael Cooper, the writer and director was behind the films New Jack City, Above the Rim and Sugar Hill, died Wednesday at 66.