Barry Michael Cooper, a screenwriter best known for his work in New Jack City and Above the Rim, died on Wednesday, Jan. 22. He was 66. According to Variety, Cooper's death was confirmed by a ...

There is no discussion of 1990s-era Black movies without films written by Barry Michael Cooper ... City,” “Sugar Hill,” and “Above The Rim.” Cooper, who moved to Baltimore in the ...

Barry Michael Cooper ... and Tupac (Above the Rim.) Though he lived much of the last decades of his life in Baltimore, he was Harlem to his core." Michael A. Gonzales, who co-wrote the important ...

The acclaimed screenwriter of the Harlem trilogy of movies: New Jack City, Sugar Hill, and Above The Rim has passed away at the age of 66.

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 ... drama starring Mr. Snipes, and “Above the Rim,” a basketball drama starring Tupac Shakur as a dealer; Mr. Cooper wrote it with Benny Medina and ...