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

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

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

Barry Michael Cooper, a writer and producer known for 'New Jack City,' 'Sugar Hill' and 'Above the Rim,' has died at age 66. ...

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.

He invented the term 'New Jack Swing' and wrote the scripts for 'New Jack City', 'Above the Rim', and 'Sugar Hill'.

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

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