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.

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

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

Barry Michael Cooper, the visionary writer and producer who transformed urban storytelling through groundbreaking journalism and iconic films, has passed away in Baltimore at 66, reports Lovebscott.

Barry Michael Cooper, the screenwriter behind “New Jack City” and pioneering investigative journalist, died Tuesday in Baltimore at age 66. Barry Michael Cooper, the celebrated screenwriter ...

Barry Michael Cooper, a writer and producer who co-wrote the blaxploitation '90s classic "New Jack City" and finished his ...

Barry Michael Cooper, a writer and producer known for 'New Jack City,' 'Sugar Hill' and 'Above the Rim,' has died at age 66. ...

Cooper worked as a producer on the show and also wrote three episodes. Barry Michael Cooper wrote the ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ season-two episode “#SuperFunkyCaliFragiSexy.” Netflix ...

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.

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 ...