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

The Harlem journalist who coined the phrase “New Jack Swing” while writing a profile passed away in Maryland. There is ...

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

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

Barry Michael Cooper, an investigative reporter-turned-screenwriter known for the films “New Jack City,” “Above the Rim” and ...

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,” ...

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, a pioneering journalist and screenwriter, died on Tuesday, Jan. 21, in Baltimore, Md., at 66.

The film was named New Jack City. Made on a budget of $8 million ... Other notable works of Barry Michael Cooper include a 2005 blog called Hooked on the American Dream. In 2011, he also published ...

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