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

Barry Michael Cooper, a writer and producer who co-wrote the blaxploitation ’90s classic “New Jack City” and finished his “Harlem trilogy” writing “Sugar Hill” and “Above the Rim,” died in Baltimore, ...

Barry Michael Cooper, a writer and producer who co-wrote the blaxploitation ’90s classic “New Jack City” and finished his “Harlem trilogy” writing “Sugar Hill” and “Above the Rim ...

New Jack City was a big critical and commercial success ... Cooper worked as a producer on the show and also wrote three episodes. Barry Michael Cooper wrote the ‘She’s Gotta Have It ...

The Harlem journalist who coined the phrase “New Jack Swing” while writing a profile passed away in Maryland. There is no ...

Hollywood writer and producer Barry Michael Cooper, who scripted a string of ... pen the screenplay of the iconic 1991 crime film New Jack City, starring Wesley Snipes as a drug lord opposite ...

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

The 1991 crime thriller starred Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, and Chris Rock and became a cultural gem in cinema. Cooper continued to shape the landscape of Black storytelling with Sugar Hill (1993), starring ...

There is no discussion of 1990s-era Black movies without films written by Barry Michael Cooper, the Harlem, New York, born-and-raised journalist turned screenwriter who penned “New Jack City,” ...

Barry Michael Cooper, the acclaimed screenwriter best known for his “Harlem trilogy” consisting of the films “New Jack City” (1991), “Sugar Hill” and “Above the Rim” (both 1994 ...

Barry Michael Cooper, an investigative reporter turned screenwriter known for the films “New Jack City,” “Above the Rim” and “Sugar Hill,” has died. Cooper died Tuesday, a spokesperson ...