Jack White invited his teen daughter Scarlett to play bass during his Irving Plaza concert in New York on Monday, Feb. 10.

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

EXCLUSIVE: Producer and promoter Je’Caryous Johnson, best known for stage productions of seminal Black films like New Jack ...

Influential screenwriter and music journalist Barry Michael Cooper died last month at age 66, and there’s no better way to ...

Barry Michael Cooper, a writer and producer known for his work on 'New Jack City' and 'Sugar Hill,' has died. He was 66.

Even Hollywood got in on the act with “New Jack City," a 1991 crime drama starring Wesley Snipes that featured a new jack soundtrack. (Cooper, the journalist, co-wrote the screenplay.) ...

EXCLUSIVE: Producer and promoter Je’Caryous Johnson, best known for stage productions of seminal Black films like New Jack City and Set It Off, is launching a film studio. Je’Caryous Johnson ...

born-and-raised journalist turned screenwriter who penned “New Jack City,” “Sugar Hill,” and “Above The Rim.” Cooper, who ...

It didn’t seem real.” In December 1987, he wrote the piece “New Jack City Eats Its Young” for The Village Voice, a searing piece that chronicled the rise and rise of street drug dealers in ...