Barry Michael Cooper, the acclaimed screenwriter best known for his “Harlem trilogy” consisting of the films “New Jack City” (1991), “Sugar Hill” and “Above the Rim” (both 1994), died Wednesday of ...

Barry Michael Cooper, the acclaimed journalist and screenwriter behind the 90’s classic “Harlem Trilogy” of films -- “New Jack City,” “Sugar Hill,” and “Above the Rim”-- and the music critic who ...

Barry Michael Cooper, the screenwriter behind “New Jack City” and pioneering investigative journalist, died Tuesday in Baltimore at age 66. The trio of films cemented Cooper’s legacy in cinematic ...

Inset: Barry Michael Cooper in 2011. Left and right: Two of Cooper's cover stories for the Voice. John W. Ferguson/Getty Images; Village Voice Archive John W. Ferguson/Getty Images; Village Voice ...

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.

There is no discussion of 1990s-era Black movies without films written by Barry Michael Cooper, the Harlem, New York, born-and-raised journalist turned screenwriter who penned “New Jack City,” “Sugar ...