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2026
(World Premiere)ExperimentalVirtual Content

Tenants of Lenapehocking in the Age of Magnets

A black-and-white film still from Tenants of Lenapehocking in the Age of Magnets shows a group of four Black women and one Black boy on a lawn. The lawn is surrounded by taller townhomes and blocked from the road with a white picket fence. The group stands around a brick circle with taller foliage.

Tenants of Lenapehocking in the Age of Magnets is a collection of stories about the inhabitants of a land, specifically the Black community of North Philadelphia in the 20th century, an epicenter of African American social, cultural and political life both locally and nationally. The place of the documentary is a portion of the original homeland of the Lenape between the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers and the stories told cover an age of industry shaped by developing electromagnetic technology. 

Featured oral history narrators include Chief Robert Redhawk Ruth, Dr. Rae Alexander-Minter, Rev. Joseph Williams, Cecily Moore Banks, Elaine Brown, David Litofsky, Dr. John Churchville, Rev. Frank Tyson, Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Karen Warrington. Their life stories are animated by photos from the archive of photographer John W. Mosely.

Tickets

Virtual

Availability BeginsThursday, August 69:00PM EDT
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Filmmaker

Louis Massiah

Director

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