"It was a mix of everything that was great about Black culture," a Hofstra professor says of the genre, which burned bright ...
Barry Michael Cooper, a writer and producer known for his work on 'New Jack City' and 'Sugar Hill,' has died. He was 66.
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.
EXCLUSIVE: Producer and promoter Je’Caryous Johnson, best known for stage productions of seminal Black films like New Jack City and Set It Off, is launching a film studio. Je’Caryous Johnson Studios ...
Barry Michael Cooper, a writer and producer known for 'New Jack City,' 'Sugar Hill' and 'Above the Rim,' has died at age 66. ...
The first, “New Jack City” (1991), about a ruthless uptown drug lord (Wesley Snipes), presaged a wave of films from Black directors and screenwriters that touched on gang life in the 1990s.
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), died Wednesday of ...
Cooper helped pen the screenplay of the iconic 1991 crime film New Jack City, starring Wesley Snipes as a drug lord opposite Ice-T as the detective on his case. He also wrote the 1994 film Above ...
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.
The writer and producer behind classic Black films like "New Jack City" and "Above the Rim" passed away at age 66. Cooper made his directorial debut in 2005 with Blood on the Wall$, a low-budget ...
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