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

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

Lady Gaga's seventh studio album, 'Mayhem,' will be released on March 7. The announcement was teased via billboards that ...

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.

Hollywood writer and producer Barry Michael Cooper ... Prior to his work in the entertainment industry, Cooper was a music critic and then an investigative reporter for The Village Voice in ...

From the West Coast party, Alanis Morissette, who’s celebrating three decades of her hit album “Jagged Little Pill,” will perform throughout the night, with “I Hate Boston” singer Reneé ...

At a time when the Jackson 5’s music was moving in a modern direction, Michael Jackson’s third album was a little stuck in the past, featuring a ’30s musical number, “All the Things You ...

With McDonald on board, however, the Doobies found a new audience in the adult contemporary genre, releasing hit singles and ...

Barry Michael Cooper, a screenwriter who penned screenplays for New Jack City and other notable Black films, has died.

By Angel Diaz Barry Michael Cooper, the journalist who coined the term “New Jack Swing” to describe the music Teddy Riley was making during the ’80s and wrote the screenplays for influential ...

He also coined the term “New Jack Swing,” a name that defined a fusion of R&B and Hip-Hop music in the late ’80s and early ’90s. Barry Michael Cooper continued to expand his influence as a ...