"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, who invented the term 'New Jack Swing' and wrote the scripts for 'New Jack City', 'Above the Rim', and 'Sugar Hill,’ has died.

But just because a group doesn’t record together anymore, does that mean they’re done? Not usually. Usually, groups can reunite every now and then for a tour. But not CMB. Why?

He was 66. In Black pop cultural circles, Cooper was known for having coined the phrase “new jack swing” in a 1988 profile ...

Prior to his screenwriting success in the 1990s, Cooper was a music critic for The Village Voice between 1980 and 1989. He also penned the piece “Teddy Riley’s New Jack Swing: Harlem Gangsters ...

During this time, he wrote his book Teddy Riley's New Jack Swing: Harlem Gangsters Raise a Genius on the life of the two-time Grammy winner. New Jack Swing defines the music of Teddy Riley from ...

The screenwriter behind the classic films “New Jack City,” "Sugar Hill," and "Above the Rim" died this week in Baltimore.

The piece, titled “Teddy Riley’s New Jack Swing: Harlem Gangsters Raise a Genius,” captured a star on his meteoric rise to the top but also coined the term “new jack swing” that defined the genre of ...