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 ...

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

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 ...

“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 ...

The cast of Harlem—including Meagan Good, Grace Byers, Shoniqua Shandai, Jerrie Johnson, and Tyler Lepley—lit up New York City for their Season 3 premiere, while Issa Rae continued her One Of ...