Iconic screenwriter, journalist dead at 66: ‘He helped define pop culture in the ‘80s and ‘90s’
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 ...
Hip-Hop Community Mourns Death of Influential Journalist & Screenwriter Barry Michael Cooper
He invented the term 'New Jack Swing' and wrote the scripts for 'New Jack City', 'Above the Rim', and 'Sugar Hill'.