Barry Michael Cooper, the screenwriter behind movies like 1991's New Jack City, has died. He was 66. The Maryland Chief Examiner's Office confirmed Cooper's death to PEOPLE on Thursday ...

Barry Michael Cooper, best known for his work on the 1990s movie New Jack City, has died, per TMZ. He was 66. According to ...

Barry Michael Cooper is a journalist, screenwriter, and producer who wrote “New Jack City,” “Above The Rim,” and “Sugar Hill.” Cooper is the first African American screenwriter in ...

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.

Barry Michael Cooper, the journalist and screenwriter behind films like "New Jack City" and "Above The Rim," died this week. The Harlem native chronicled New York City's highs and lows.

By Alex Williams Barry Michael Cooper, who was one of the first ... “He was very aware of everything from Hemingway to Dostoyevsky,” the author, critic and filmmaker Nelson George, who worked ...

Cooper wrote for newspapers like 'The Village Voice' before transitioning to screenwriting and filmmaking with 1991's 'New Jack City' Barry Michael Cooper, the screenwriter behind movies like 1991 ...

Barry Michael Cooper, an investigative reporter ... On Instagram the junior Cooper lauded his father as an “author of compassion,” an “icon” and a “super hero.” ...

Journalist and screenwriter Barry Michael Cooper, best known for co-writing the films "New Jack City" and "Above the Rim," has died. He was 66. (John W. Ferguson / Getty Images) ...