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,” died in Baltimore, ...

‘New Jack City’ was a harbinger of the resurgence ... as well as the crystallization of Hip Hop’s synergistic capabilities.” Barry Michael Cooper was born on June 12, 1958, in Harlem ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...