"It was a mix of everything that was great about Black culture," a Hofstra professor says of the genre, which burned bright in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Alongside Curry, Unanimous Media's Erick Peyton, Michelle Raimo Kouyate ("The Spider Within: a Spider-Verse Story," "Silver Linings Playbook"), Adam Rosenberg ("Creed 3") and Academy Award winner ...

By Angel Diaz 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 ...

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.

Stephen Curry has released the movie poster for his upcoming GOAT film. The animated film will be out next year.

The following year, Cooper wrote “Teddy Riley’s New Jack Swing: Harlem Gangsters Raise a Genius,” a feature about R&B producer and singer Teddy Riley. The piece, writes The Hollywood ...

Piece by Piece, now streaming on Peacock, is Pharrell Williams’ take on a music doc, which means it’s shot through with the ...

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 ...

Teddy Riley, the king of new jack swing, is set to release his memoir, Remember The Times. The title is a reference to Remember The Time, a track from Michael Jackson’s 1991 album, Dangerous ...

While at The Village Voice, he wrote a piece titled “Teddy Riley’s New Jack Swing: Harlem Gangsters Raise a Genius” in 1987 that coined the name of a new hybrid of R&B and rap. He moved to Baltimore ...

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 ...