Barry Michael Cooper, who invented the term 'New Jack Swing' and wrote the scripts for 'New Jack City', 'Above the Rim', and ...

There is no discussion of 1990s-era Black movies without films written by Barry Michael Cooper, the Harlem, New York, ...

Barry Michael Cooper, the acclaimed screenwriter best known for his “Harlem trilogy” consisting of the films “New Jack City” ...

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.

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

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 and producer known for 'New Jack City,' 'Sugar Hill' and 'Above the Rim,' dies at age 66.

By Angel Diaz Barry Michael Cooper, the journalist who coined the term “New Jack Swing” to describe the music Teddy Riley was making during the ’80s and wrote the screenplays for influential ...

There is no discussion of 1990s-era Black movies without films written by Barry Michael Cooper, the Harlem ... would come to define that of urban music in the late 80s and early 90s; Riley ...

Barry Michael Cooper, a writer who penned the screenplay ... Prior to his screenwriting success in the 1990s, Cooper was a music critic for The Village Voice between 1980 and 1989.

Barry Michael Cooper, the screenwriter behind movies like ... in 2019 to make a short film titled Guilt... He also directed music videos for artists like Tevin Campbell and Grand Daddy I.U ...

Writer and producer Barry Michael Cooper has died in Baltimore, Maryland. Cooper wrote a series of iconic 1990 s movies, ...