Barry Michael Cooper, the screenwriter behind the influential “Harlem Trilogy” of films New Jack City, Sugar Hill and Above the Rim and the man who coined the term New Jack Swing, has died. He was 66.

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

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

Barry Michael Cooper, a writer and producer known for his work on 'New Jack City' and 'Sugar Hill,' has died. He was 66.

“Harlem is split into two periods ... in Detroit who had reached millionaire status from the crack epidemic. ‘Sugar Hill’ Everett Collection Cooper’s reporting on the crack epidemic ...

Barry Michael Cooper, a writer and producer who co-wrote the blaxploitation ’90s classic “New Jack City” and finished his “Harlem trilogy” writing “Sugar Hill” and “Above the Rim ...

Above The Rim and the 1994 movie Sugar Hill, starring Wesley Snipes, Michael Wright and Abe Vigoda. All three movies are occasionally collectively known as the Harlem Trilogy and have been ...

Cooper was also a music critic and investigative journalist who coined the term "New Jack Swing" The post Barry Michael Cooper, ‘New Jack City’ and ‘Above the Rim’ Screenwriter, Dies at 66 appeared ...