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 his work on 'New Jack City' and 'Sugar Hill,' has died. He was 66.

Barry Michael Cooper, the screenwriter behind the influential “Harlem Trilogy” of films New Jack City, Sugar Hill and Above the Rim and the man who coined the term New Jack Swing, has died. He was 66.

During his time at The Village Voice, Cooper wrote a piece about rising R&B producer and singer Teddy Riley in October 1987. The piece, titled “Teddy Riley’s New Jack Swing: Harlem Gangsters ...

Barry Michael Cooper, a writer and producer who co-wrote the blaxploitation ’90s classic “New Jack City” and finished his “Harlem trilogy” writing “Sugar Hill” and “Above the Rim ...

Cooper was also a music critic and investigative journalist who coined the term "New Jack Swing" The post Barry Michael Cooper, ‘New Jack City’ and ‘Above the Rim’ Screenwriter, Dies at 66 appeared ...

Barry Michael Cooper, an investigative reporter-turned-screenwriter known for the films "New Jack City," "Above the Rim" and "Sugar Hill," has died. Cooper died Tuesday, a spokesperson for the ...

Hollywood writer and producer Barry Michael Cooper ... in Baltimore at the age of 66. Cooper helped pen the screenplay of the iconic 1991 crime film New Jack City, starring Wesley Snipes as ...

The Harlem journalist who coined the phrase “New Jack Swing” while writing a profile passed away in Maryland. There is no ...