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

The Harlem journalist who coined the phrase “New Jack Swing” while writing a profile passed away in Maryland. There is no ...

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

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 ...

Cooper was also a music critic and investigative journalist who coined the term "New Jack Swing" The post Barry Michael Cooper, ‘New Jack City’ and ‘Above the Rim’ Screenwriter, Dies at 66 appeared ...

Barry Michael Cooper, the acclaimed screenwriter best known for his “Harlem trilogy” consisting of the films “New Jack City” (1991), “Sugar Hill” and “Above the Rim” (both 1994 ...

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

Barry Michael Cooper, a pioneering journalist and screenwriter, died on Tuesday, Jan. 21, in Baltimore, Md., at 66.

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The word “blockbuster” gets thrown around a little too often in today’s NHL, often for trades unworthy of the term, in the same way that anything might feel like a five-star meal to a starving man.