"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.

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 ...

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 ...