At 6-foot-9, "Sweet" Lou Dunbar was a walking highlight, a popular showman who has spent five decades with the Harlem ...

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

During the early development of television, and long before the Civil Rights Movement began in the 1950s, Black entertainers ...

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

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The Harlem journalist who coined the phrase “New Jack Swing” while writing a profile passed away in Maryland. There is no ...

After months of waiting on pins and needles, Godfather of Harlem season 4 is officially underway. A delight to millions of fans infatuated with the dramatized world of Bumpy Johnson (Forest Whitaker).

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

As a journalist the Harlem native gained notoriety for articles ... Cooper and Snipes would later reunite for 1994’s “Sugar Hill,” which starred Snipes as a drug dealer seeking to escape ...

Barry Michael Cooper, the acclaimed screenwriter best known for his “Harlem trilogy” consisting of the films “New Jack City” (1991), “Sugar Hill” and “Above the Rim” (both 1994 ...