W.V., on the introduction of the U.S. Reciprocal Trade Act, President Donald Trump's plan to tariff aluminum and steel imports and the need to address mandatory spending.

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

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

A reporter cuts off music legend Babyface mid-sentence during Grammy Award livestream to flag down pop star Chappell Roan and ...

Its reign coincides with the song’s standing as the top-played tune on TouchTunes jukeboxes for 2024, the first song since ...

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 ...

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

The U.S. Senate passed the Laken Riley Act with bipartisan support — including both of Arizona’s Democratic senators — keeping a crackdown on illegal immigrants involved in criminal cases on ...

Barry Michael Cooper, a writer and producer known for 'New Jack City,' 'Sugar Hill' and 'Above the Rim,' dies at age 66. 'Will never be another,' his son says.

he coined the term “New Jack Swing” to refer to the then-nascent genre of R&B music fused with hip hop popularized by producer Teddy Riley and acts like Bobby Brown, Kool Moe Dee and Janet ...

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.