He was a storyteller whose pen immortalized Harlem’s struggles and triumphs. With New Jack City, Sugar Hill, and Above the Rim, Cooper created a “Harlem trilogy” that defined an era of urban ...

It didn’t seem real.” In December 1987, he wrote the piece “New Jack City Eats Its Young” for The Village Voice, a searing piece that chronicled the rise and rise of street drug dealers in ...

Is New Jack City getting a remake? The 1991 crime drama is certainly ripe for one, especially in our reboot-riddled day and age — after all, Twisters just dropped, there is an upcoming ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...