"It was a mix of everything that was great about Black culture," a Hofstra professor says of the genre, which burned bright ...

Cooper was more than a screenwriter. He was a storyteller whose pen immortalized Harlem’s struggles and triumphs. With New ...

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

Netflix has dropped the teaser trailer for Forever, the upcoming series from Mara Brock Akil, which is an adaptation of the ...

We’re getting the first look at Forever, Netflix’s upcoming drama series starring Michael Cooper Jr. and Lovie Simone. The streamer dropped the first teaser Thursday at its Next on Netflix 2025 ...

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

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

Sundance is a Film Festival with two capital Fs, but each year they also feature a handful of shows via their “episodic” ...

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.

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