Michael Cooper, a 75-year-old inmate at Oregon State Penitentiary, died on February 4, 2025, at a local hospital, according ...

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

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, best known for his work on the 1990s movie New Jack City, has died, per TMZ. He was 66. According to TMZ, the Maryland Chief Medical Examiner's Office confirmed that the famed ...

Influential screenwriter and music journalist Barry Michael Cooper died last month at age 66, and there’s no better way to ...

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.

Barry Michael Cooper, a screenwriter who penned screenplays for New Jack City and other notable Black films, has died.

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

Barry Michael Cooper, the writer and producer behind the classics New Jack City, Sugar Hill, and Above the Rim has died at ...

Cooper was more than a screenwriter. He was a storyteller whose pen immortalized Harlem’s struggles and triumphs. With New ...

Barry Michael Cooper, the acclaimed screenwriter best known for his “Harlem trilogy” consisting of the films “New Jack City” ...