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

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

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

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.

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

The Harlem journalist who coined the phrase “New Jack Swing” while writing a profile passed away in Maryland. There is ...

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.

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