Joseph Haj has tapped musician Jack Herrick and a cast that includes Broadway actor Remy Auberjonois for his first-ever ...

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

Cooper was more than a screenwriter. He was a storyteller whose pen immortalized Harlem’s struggles and triumphs. With New ...

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

The pioneering director of New Jack City and Posse discusses his unusual childhood, his relationship with Hollywood decision-makers, and why his director father Melvin doesn’t have a star on the Walk ...

The upstate New York high schoolers at the heart of “Middletown” hint at what the Breakfast Club crew might have been had ...

After chronicling the crack boom of the 1980s as an investigative reporter, he had a high-profile but brief second career in ...

There is no discussion of 1990s-era Black movies without films written by Barry Michael Cooper, the Harlem, New York, ...

The screenwriter behind the classic films “New Jack City,” "Sugar Hill," and "Above the Rim" died this week in Baltimore.

Barry Michael Cooper, the writer and director was behind the films New Jack City, Above the Rim and Sugar Hill, died Wednesday at 66.

Cooper wrote for newspapers like 'The Village Voice' before transitioning to screenwriting and filmmaking with 1991's 'New Jack City' ...