"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.

Sarandon may be best known in some circles for providing the speaking voice for Jack Skellington in the Tim Burton classic The Nightmare Before Christmas. Just think, Jack Skellington once roamed ...

Jack De Mave, who played Forest Ranger Bob Erickson in CBS’ Lassie, died in hospice care in Macon, Georgia on January 16 following a heart attack on Thanksgiving Day. He was 91. Born John ...