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

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 ...

Barry Michael Cooper, a writer who penned the screenplay for New Jack City and reportedly coined the phrase “New Jack Swing,” has died. Barry Michael Cooper’s other works include writings ...

Barry Michael Cooper, a writer and producer known for 'New Jack City,' 'Sugar Hill' and 'Above the Rim,' has died at age 66. ...

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

Cooper was more than a screenwriter. He was a storyteller whose pen immortalized Harlem’s struggles and triumphs. With New ...

Writer and producer Barry Michael Cooper has died in Baltimore, Maryland. Cooper wrote a series of iconic 1990 s movies, including New Jack City, starring Wesley Snipes and Chris Rock, Above The Rim, ...

There is no discussion of 1990s-era Black movies without films written by Barry Michael Cooper, the Harlem, New York, ...

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), died Wednesday of ...

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.

Barry Michael Cooper, the writer and producer behind the classics New Jack City, Sugar Hill, and Above the Rim has died at ...