EXCLUSIVE: Producer and promoter Je'Caryous Johnson, best known for stage productions of seminal Black films like New Jack ...

The Harlem journalist who coined the phrase “New Jack Swing” while writing a profile passed away in Maryland. There is no ...

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 first of Cooper’s “Harlem Trilogy” (which also includes Sugar Hill and Above the Rim), New Jack City made a street opera of the crack epidemic with an electrically vile Wesley Snipes ...

Barry Michael Cooper, the screenwriter behind “New Jack City” and pioneering investigative journalist, died Tuesday in Baltimore at age 66. Barry Michael Cooper, the celebrated screenwriter ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...