This grouping honors those we're calling "The Transformers" — individuals who are reshaping the city through their work.

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

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NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 12: Journalist and author Barry Michael Cooper attends The Paley Center For Media Presents "Planet Rock: The Story of Hip-Hop & the Crack Generation">> at The Paley Center for ...

Barry Michael Cooper, the writer and director was behind the films "New Jack City," "Above the Rim" and "Sugar Hill", died Wednesday at 66.

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

He worked at Columbia TriStar, Gramercy Pictures, Propaganda Films, Fox, Anonymous Content and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment.

The screenwriter behind the classic films “New Jack City,” "Sugar Hill," and "Above the Rim" died this week in Baltimore.

Barry Michael Cooper, who invented the term 'New Jack Swing' and wrote the scripts for 'New Jack City', 'Above the Rim', and ...

Cooper wrote for newspapers like 'The Village Voice' before transitioning to screenwriting and filmmaking with 1991's 'New Jack City' ...