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Feb 26, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Kelby Clark |Zenzelé Soa-Clarke |Nicole Hemmer |Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

Hazel (Ashleigh Murray) and Nella (Sinclair Daniel) in a scene from The Other Black Girl. Image Credit: Mariama Diallo, 2023In the first episode of Hulu’s The Other Black Girl (2023), a Black editorial assistant walks into an empty office that, from its wall to its decor, is completely white.

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.