He invented the term 'New Jack Swing' and wrote the scripts for 'New Jack City', 'Above the Rim', and 'Sugar Hill'.

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Cooper wrote for newspapers like 'The Village Voice' before transitioning to screenwriting and filmmaking with 1991's 'New Jack City' ...

The sound would come to define that of urban music in the late 80s and early 90s ... Brown and the Cash Money Brothers. It would be Wesley Snipes’ breakout performance. Snipes would also ...

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We’ve put together a list of must-see movies on Netflix made by Black creators. Streaming now are great films new and old, including "Mudbound," "Daughters," "She's Gotta Have It," "Wendell and Wild," ...

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“I had this conversation with Bob Christgau in January of ’80. I said, “There’s some music coming ... debuting at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991, the film starred Wesley Snipes as Nino Brown, the ...

Barry helped define pop culture in the ‘80s and ‘90s with his early reporting on crack, by naming Teddy Riley’s sound “new jack swing,” and writing star vehicles for Wesley Snipes (New ...