"It was a mix of everything that was great about Black culture," a Hofstra professor says of the genre, which burned bright ...

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

In The Fan, a star baseball player (Wesley Snipes) becomes the unhealthy focus of a down-on-his-luck salesman (Robert De Niro ...

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

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Barry Michael Cooper, the journalist who coined the term “New Jack Swing” to describe the music Teddy Riley was making during ...

The screenwriter behind 'New Jack City,' 'Sugar Hill,' 'Above the Rim,' and Spike Lee's 'She's Gotta Have It' TV series died on Tuesday in Baltimore at 66.

Barry Michael Cooper, the acclaimed screenwriter ... careers of some of the era’s most notable actors, most notably Wesley Snipes, who’s menacing turn as crack lord Nino Brown in “New ...

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 ...

Michael Jackson's Bad (1987) dropped at Jackson's untouchable peak — it was all downhill from there, sadly. One star who can thank Jackson for a leg-up was Wesley Snipes, who was the gang leader in ...