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

The Village Voice obituary of writer Barry Michael Cooper, dead at age 66, notes the powerful stories he wrote for the paper in the 1980s.

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

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

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

ISABELLA GOMEZ SARMIENTO, BYLINE: Barry Michael Cooper started his career writing about music. In 1988, he coined the term new jack swing in a profile of musician and producer Teddy Riley for The ...

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

The 2100 N. 29th St. school is a faith-based, independent school serving low-income families in Richmond's East End with roughly 200 students from kindergarten through 8th grade. The school's ...

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

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