There is no discussion of 1990s-era Black movies without films written by Barry Michael Cooper, the Harlem, New York, born-and-raised journalist turned screenwriter who penned “New Jack City,” “Sugar ...

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.

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...