Barry Michael Cooper, ‘New Jack City’ Screenwriter, Dies at 66

After chronicling the crack boom of the 1980s as an investigative reporter, he had a high-profile but brief second career in Hollywood.Barry Michael Cooper in 1994 in Baltimore, where he lived. He wrote the screenplay for “New Jack City” (1991), which presaged a wave of films from Black directors and screenwriters that touched on 1990s gang life.