"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fox enlists A-listers like Martin Scorsese and Kevin Costner to put the "premium" in its Gen X-focused streaming service The ...
Oklahoma Sooners head coach Brent Venables still has the belief of one of his former players. Former OU safety Billy Bowman, ...