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 ...

Barry Michael Cooper, an investigative reporter-turned ... On Instagram the junior Cooper lauded his father as an "author of compassion," an "icon" and a "super hero." "[He] single handedly ...

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

Barry Michael Cooper, an investigative reporter turned ... On Instagram the junior Cooper lauded his father as an “author of compassion,” an “icon” and a “super hero.” ...

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,” ...

Hollywood writer and producer Barry Michael Cooper, who scripted a string of beloved 1990s movies, has died in Baltimore at the age of 66. Cooper helped pen the screenplay of the iconic 1991 crime ...

Barry Michael Cooper, a writer and producer who co-wrote the blaxploitation ’90s classic “New Jack City” and finished his “Harlem trilogy” writing “Sugar Hill” and “Above the Rim ...

Cooper worked as a producer on the show and also wrote three episodes. Barry Michael Cooper wrote the ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ season-two episode “#SuperFunkyCaliFragiSexy.” Netflix ...