Influential screenwriter and music journalist Barry Michael Cooper died last month at age 66, and there’s no better way to ...

He invented the term 'New Jack Swing' and wrote the ... for influential movies like New Jack City featuring Wesley Snipes’ iconic role as Nino Brown, Above the Rim starring 2Pac in one of ...

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 ...

Snipes would also star in 1994’s “Sugar Hill” as Romello Skuggs, a more subtle and nuanced drug dealer than that of “New Jack City’” Nino Brown; “Sugar Hill” was also written by Cooper as was 1994’s ...

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.

He updated it for the crack era, focusing on a fictional kingpin, Nino Brown, in what became “New Jack City.” Image From left, Ice-T, Vanessa P. Williams, Wesley Snipes and Christopher ...

Snipes would also star in 1994’s “Sugar Hill” as Romello Skuggs, a more subtle and nuanced drug dealer than that of “New Jack City’” Nino Brown; “Sugar Hill” was also written by ...

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