A rare script signed by Tupac Shakur from the 1994 film *Above the Rim* is set to be auctioned in Los Angeles on November 21, offering collectors a part of Hip-Hop and Hollywood history. A rare ...

Nate D. Sander Auctions currently has a piece of hip-hop-related motion-picture history listed on its site, in the form of multiple pages of Tupac Shakur's signed script from the 1994 film Above The ...

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 ...

Journalist and screenwriter Barry Michael Cooper, best known for co-writing the films "New Jack City" and "Above the Rim," has died. He was 66. (John W. Ferguson / Getty Images) Barry Michael Cooper, ...

Barry Michael Cooper, a screenwriter best known for his work in New Jack City and Above the Rim, died on Wednesday, Jan. 22. He was 66. According to Variety, Cooper's death was confirmed by a ...

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.