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.

Barry Michael Cooper, a pioneering journalist and screenwriter, died on Tuesday, Jan. 21, in Baltimore, Md., at 66.

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

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

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

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Barry Michael Cooper, an investigative reporter-turned-screenwriter known for the films “New Jack City,” “Above the Rim” and ...

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 ...

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