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.

Cooper helped pen the screenplay of the iconic 1991 crime film New Jack City, starring Wesley Snipes as a drug lord opposite ...

Garth Hudson, best known for his role with “The Band,” died Tuesday at the age of 87. Jan Haust, Hudson’s longtime friend and colleague, confirmed his death to “Rolling Stone.” No cause of death was ...