His final post showed him wearing a black hoodie with the caption: “15 January 2025 – Dr. MLK Day – "Am I My Brother's Keeper? – Baltimore, Md.” Barry Michael Cooper's legacy will now be ...

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, a writer who penned the screenplay for New Jack City and reportedly coined the phrase “New Jack Swing,” has died. Barry Michael Cooper’s other works include writings ...

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 ...

Barry Michael Cooper, the screenwriter behind “New Jack City” and pioneering investigative journalist, died Tuesday in Baltimore at age 66. Barry Michael Cooper, the celebrated screenwriter ...

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,” ...