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

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.

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 'New Jack City,' 'Sugar Hill' and 'Above the Rim,' dies at age 66. 'Will never be another,' his son says.

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

The 1991 crime thriller starred Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, and Chris Rock and became a cultural gem in cinema. Cooper continued to shape the landscape of Black storytelling with Sugar Hill (1993), starring ...

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, who scripted a string of beloved 1990s movies, has died in Baltimore at the age of 66. Cooper helped pen the screenplay of the iconic 1991 crime ...