There is no discussion of 1990s-era Black movies without films written by Barry Michael Cooper, the Harlem, New York, born-and-raised journalist turned screenwriter who penned “New Jack City,” “Sugar ...

The Crucible’ is so much more than a play about the Salem Witch Trials,” says Tom Heagy, director of this intense theatrical ...

Prior to his work in the entertainment industry, Cooper was a music critic and then an investigative reporter for The Village Voice in New York ... and the 1994 movie Sugar Hill, starring ...