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

Cooper wrote for newspapers like 'The Village Voice' before transitioning to screenwriting and filmmaking with 1991's 'New ...

New Jack City’ screenwriter Barry Michael Cooper has died aged 66. Best known for penning the 1991 cult classic starring Ice-T, his death was confirmed on Thursday (23.01.25) by the Maryland Chief ...

Forest Whitaker’s Bumpy Johnson is contending with the arrival of Rome Flynn’s Frank Lucas in the first teaser trailer for Godfather of Harlem Season 4 on MGM+. Ilfenesh Hadera, Lucy Fry, Antoinette ...

The Emmy-winning series, starring Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker as Harlem crime boss Bumpy Johnson ... and Devin Kessler as Afeni Shakur, mother of Tupac Shakur. Ilfenesh Hadera, Lucy ...

Barry Michael Cooper, a pioneering journalist and screenwriter, died on Tuesday, Jan. 21, in Baltimore, Md., at 66.

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

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 ...

“Sugar Hill” was also written by Cooper as was 1994’s “Above The Rim,” which starred Tupac Shakur and Duane Martin. Cooper would continue to write and work in media, though the ...