The Harlem journalist who coined the phrase “New Jack Swing ... Heavy D, and producers of the era like legends Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. But it was Cooper’s reporting on the crack epidemic that would ...

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.

There is no discussion of 1990s-era Black movies without films written by Barry Michael Cooper, the Harlem, New York ... it was Cooper’s reporting on the crack epidemic that would give way ...