Michael Cooper on Jack Nicholson: "Jack was so down to Earth because we used to go to 'On the Rocks', which is above 'The Roxy' in Hollywood, and Jack would be in there and we used to party with him, ...

Michael Cooper on Jack Nicholson: "Jack was so down to Earth because we used to go to 'On the Rocks', which is above 'The ...

"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 ...

Barry Michael Cooper, a pioneering journalist and screenwriter, died on Tuesday, Jan. 21, in Baltimore, Md., at 66.

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

The Village Voice obituary of writer Barry Michael Cooper, dead at age 66, notes the powerful stories he wrote for the paper in the 1980s.

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

NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 12: Journalist and author Barry Michael Cooper attends The Paley Center For Media Presents "Planet Rock: The Story of Hip-Hop & the Crack Generation">> at The Paley Center for ...

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