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

Barry Michael Cooper, who invented the term 'New Jack Swing' and wrote the scripts for 'New Jack City', 'Above the Rim', and 'Sugar Hill,’ has died.

Cooper helped pen the screenplay of the iconic 1991 crime film New Jack City, starring Wesley Snipes as a drug lord ... Just five days before his death, Cooper had written an Instagram post ...

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

Cooper’s death was confirmed by a representative ... which he co-wrote with Thomas Lee Wright. The film starred Wesley Snipes and Ice-T as a gang leader and a hardened cop, dodging one another ...

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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.

The journeyman catcher and award-winning sports commentator, known by many as "Mr. Baseball," was diagnosed with small-cell lung cancer in 2023.

A cause of death was not immediately available ... Made for a budget of $8 million and debuting at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991, the film starred Wesley Snipes as Nino Brown, the leader of ...