Barry Michael Cooper, the screenwriter behind the influential “Harlem Trilogy” of films New Jack City, Sugar Hill and Above the Rim and the ... drawing on the crime and culture of his native New York.

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The trilogy included two films from 1994: “Sugar Hill,” another drug-hustling drama ... Hip-hop got its start in a Bronx apartment building in 1973. Here’s how the concept of home has ...

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South Bronx tenants living in buildings run by one of the city’s most notorious landlords have begun organizing to demand ...

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‘Sugar Hill’ Everett Collection Cooper’s reporting on the crack epidemic and his intimate knowledge of the growing corporate nature of drug dealing caught the attention of film producers who ...

New York, born-and-raised journalist turned screenwriter who penned “New Jack City,” “Sugar Hill,” and “Above The Rim.” Cooper, who moved to Baltimore in the mid 1980s, passed away on ...