Barry Michael Cooper, ‘New Jack City’ Screenwriter, Dies at 66 Barry Michael Cooper, a pioneer of Black cinema in the 1990s, passed away on Tuesday in Baltimore, Maryland. He was 66. Cooper ...

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

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 ...

Barry Michael Cooper in 1994 in Baltimore, where he lived. He wrote the screenplay for “New Jack City” (1991), which presaged a wave of films from Black directors and screenwriters that ...

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 screenwriter behind the seminal crime dramas New Jack City and Above the Rim, has died. He was 66.