Barry Michael Cooper, ‘New Jack City’ Screenwriter, Dies

The Village Voice, “New Jack City Eats Its Young,” written by Barry Michael Cooper. 1987. The 1991 crime thriller starred Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, and Chris Rock and became a cultural gem in ...
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 ...
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 ...