Making a Homeplace: The Historically Black Neighborhood of Swarthmore

Philadelphia Folklore Project
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Over the last fifteen years, gentrification has brought about rapid cultural and social changes within the Historically Black Neighborhood of Swarthmore displacing Black people and Black memory. This podcast presents a collective oral history/telling practice to preserve alternative (AKA Black, AKA fuller) history, culture and practices necessary to Swarthmore / community well-being and justice. The HBNS: Making a Homeplace inaugural podcast features three community curated episodes from various HBNS ethnographic research in 2010, 2020, 2022. Our first episode starts with The Great Migration: The Rise of the Black Neighborhood.The second episode focuses on the role of the Black church, Swarthmore Wesley AME Church: Strategies for Thriving. The last episode, Growing up in Swarthmore A Black Child’s Perspective: School, Play, Love, rounds out the series with intergenerational childhood memories.

Episodes

  1. 11/14/2023

    Episode 3: Growing Up Black in HBNS: A Child’s Perspective (School, Play, Love)

    Welcome to episode 3, Growing up Black in Swarthmore a Child’s Perspective: School, Play, Love. In episode three, HBN family and community members talk about shared intergenerational experiences that shaped and defined us as children such as, family by choice, making a friend / keeping a friend, beatins, and school. What are the stories, practices, […]

    1 hr

  2. 11/14/2023

    Episode 2: Wesley AME Church: Strategies for Thriving, The Role of the Black Church

    For 130+ years, the Historically Black Neighborhood of Swarthmore’s community members strategically pulled together within the larger white Borough. Folks brought along religious beliefs & practices rooted in traditions of the African Methodist Episcopalian (AME) Church. In 1921, a fledgling congregation worshiped in Jones Hall at 246 Bowdoin Ave. They then bought land at 232 […]

    25 min

  3. 11/14/2023

    Episode 1: The Great Migration & The Rise of Black Neighborhoods

    Greetings Friends, I’m Jeannine Osayande from the historically Black neighborhood of Swarthmore with family members seven generations strong. Have you ever heard of a Historically Black Neighborhood? Do you know how HBN’s were established? Did you grow up in a town with a Historically Black Neighborhood and didn’t know it? Welp, grab a hot cup […]

    20 min
  • 3 Episodes

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Over the last fifteen years, gentrification has brought about rapid cultural and social changes within the Historically Black Neighborhood of Swarthmore displacing Black people and Black memory. This podcast presents a collective oral history/telling practice to preserve alternative (AKA Black, AKA fuller) history, culture and practices necessary to Swarthmore / community well-being and justice. The HBNS: Making a Homeplace inaugural podcast features three community curated episodes from various HBNS ethnographic research in 2010, 2020, 2022. Our first episode starts with The Great Migration: The Rise of the Black Neighborhood.The second episode focuses on the role of the Black church, Swarthmore Wesley AME Church: Strategies for Thriving. The last episode, Growing up in Swarthmore A Black Child’s Perspective: School, Play, Love, rounds out the series with intergenerational childhood memories.

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