What happens when a former Texas cop with a stunning record of drug arrests starts helping people fight the law? The grim ...

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

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

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, ...

NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 12: Journalist and author Barry Michael Cooper attends The Paley Center For Media Presents "Planet Rock: The Story of Hip-Hop & the Crack Generation">> at The Paley Center for ...

Barry Michael Cooper, an investigative reporter-turned-screenwriter known for the films “New Jack City,” “Above the Rim” and ...

The screenwriter behind the classic films “New Jack City,” "Sugar Hill," and "Above the Rim" died this week in Baltimore.

Barry Michael Cooper, the writer and director was behind the films New Jack City, Above the Rim and Sugar Hill, died Wednesday at 66.

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

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

After enjoying nearly a decade of intense practice battles, strong on-court chemistry and five NBA championship runs, Los Angeles Lakers star Magic Johnson handed out another assist to teammate ...