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

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

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

Barry Michael Cooper, the screenwriter behind the influential “Harlem Trilogy” of films New Jack City, Sugar Hill and Above ...

Barry Michael Cooper, the acclaimed screenwriter best known for his “Harlem trilogy” consisting of the films “New Jack City” ...

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

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 ...

Barry Michael Cooper, a screenwriter who penned screenplays for New Jack City and other notable Black films, has died.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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