Barry Michael Cooper, the acclaimed screenwriter best known for his "Harlem trilogy" consisting of the films "New Jack City" (1991), "Sugar Hill" and "Above the Rim" (both 1994), died Wednesday of ...

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

From The Nelson George Mixtape: Barry Michael Cooper died today in Baltimore, according to his son Mathew. It’ll take me a minute to gather all my thoughts, but just wanted to thank him for ...

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

By Abid Rahman International Editor, Digital Cooper died in Baltimore, his friend the writer and filmmaker and former The Village Voice colleague Nelson George confirmed on his Substack.

Barry Michael Cooper, the screenwriter behind the influential ... Cooper died in Baltimore, his friend the writer and filmmaker and former The Village Voice colleague Nelson George confirmed on his ...

Barry Michael Cooper, an investigative reporter ... Will never be another." Writer Nelson George, one of Barry Cooper's journalist peers, mourned the screenwriter's death on Substack.