Kendrick Lamar's career started with a pivotal childhood moment he had one fateful day in November 1995 in Compton.

As a screenwriter, Mr. Cooper, who was raised in Harlem, was perhaps best known for ... and “Above the Rim,” a basketball drama starring Tupac Shakur as a dealer; Mr. Cooper wrote it with ...

Michael Benjamin Washington will also play James Baldwin this season, and Devin Kessler will be Afeni Shakur, Tupac Shakur’s mother. Here’s the description: In Season 4 of Godfather of Harlem ...

Three years later, Cooper completed what was deemed a “Harlem trilogy” with two other features ... with Snipes returning for “Sugar Hill” and Tupac Shakur, Leon and Marlon Wayans starring in the ...

“Sugar Hill” was also written by Cooper as was 1994’s “Above The Rim,” which starred Tupac Shakur and Duane Martin. Cooper would continue to write and work in media, though the ...

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.

"It was a mix of everything that was great about Black culture," a Hofstra professor says of the genre, which burned bright ...

Three years later, Cooper completed what was deemed a “Harlem trilogy” with two other ... with Snipes returning for “Sugar Hill” and Tupac Shakur, Leon and Marlon Wayans starring in ...