Asha Hassan Nooli

Oct 4, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Alexa Joy |Asha Hassan Nooli |Heather Richardson |Claire Potter

Breakdancers at Brooklyn Bridge subway stop, City Hall Park, Lower Manhattan (2015) | Jeffrey Zeldman / CC BY 2.0The inclusion of breakdancing in the Paris Olympics this year turned out to be nothing short of a spectacle. From the beginning, the sport was met with hostility and confusion. Australian squash player Michelle Martin, frustrated after years of lobbying for the inclusion of her sport, called breaking’s debut a mockery of the Olympics.

Dec 18, 2023 | publicseminar.org | Zenzelé Soa-Clarke |Heather Richardson |Kelby Clark |Asha Hassan Nooli

Image credit: Juel Taylor,They Cloned Tyrone, Netflix, 2023Released on Netflix this past summer, They Cloned Tyrone is a new addition to the platform’s “Black Stories” film collection, a category created in the tumult of June 2020 to “showcase exceptional Black talent, in front and behind the camera.” It is Hollywood screenwriter Juel Taylor’s directorial debut, and follows the exploits of three central Black characters: Fontaine, a drug dealer; Slick Charles, a pimp; and Yo-Yo, a sex worker.