"It was a mix of everything that was great about Black culture," a Hofstra professor says of the genre, which burned bright ...

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

Influential screenwriter and music journalist Barry Michael Cooper died last month at age 66, and there’s no better way to ...

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 ...

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

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