June 20, 2025 • 10 mins
Despite a little rain, the Overbrook Night Market was back in full swing — celebrating five years of food, music, and community vibes! Held at 63rd & Lancaster Avenue, the event brought out hundreds of neighbors for an unforgettable night of live performances, family fun, and 30+ amazing food vendors. Presented by State Representative Morgan Cephas and Overbrook West Neighbors, the Night Market continues to uplift West Philly with local flavor and hometown pride.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, and welcome to Insight, a show about empowering
our community. I'm Lorraine ballad Morrow. In today's show, we're
going to check in with civil rights attorney Cure Bradford Gray,
who gives us important perspective on how the Trump administration
is impacting our civil rights. But first, on Juneteenth, I
traveled over to sixty third in Lancaster for the fifth
(00:20):
annual Overbook Night Market sponsored by State Representative Morgan Cephas
and Overbook West neighbors. State Rep. Morgan Ciphus took to
the stage.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Years ago.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Are quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Food truck.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
That's the little food truck scene here in the city
of Philadelphia. What do you think about.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Brenda's in the over Wood community?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
And I said absolutely, say us, say Les, we're bringing
in here because we all remember when we were growing up,
well was a little Many Hill. We never really had
it in our backyard. But I don't want to reinforce
that this is what it looks like. The community, the
government come together to do something for the community. So
(01:27):
again we clack it up with a fifth an overthrown all.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I'm here at the Overbrook Night Market, which is hid
sixty third in Lancaster.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Tell us who you.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Are and what's happening today.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
So I'm Gregory Allen.
Speaker 7 (01:41):
I'm president and CEO of Overbrook plus Neighbors, and we
outside celebrating Overbrook in West Philly. Foody food trucks, three
beer vendors, and family zone, some DJs.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
We're just having a good old time overbook stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
You know, even though it was raining earlier, it didn't
seem to stop people from coming in a course, now
they're in is stopped. There's so many food vendors and
I'm getting really hungry right now because there's some good
things happening and lots of family fund But tell us
more about why we're doing this tonight. And this is Juneteenth, right.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
It's on Juneteenth.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
We're celebrating Overbrook in West Philly as a way of
honoring our history but also thinking about what.
Speaker 8 (02:24):
Our future will be here on LECs to Avenue, ford
Or and sixty third and like usnuff So we're imagining
a different neighborhood, a different business part of the black
and brown businesses, and there's places.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
For people that come out av a good time overbook style.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Yeah, so you brought a couple of people over the
with you. Tell us where they are.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Introduce them for us.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
So the first person to my ride is Vanessa Williams.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
She's a board number.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Vanessa.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Hi, tell us what's so special about Overthroad?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Because you know a lot of.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Us are staying in our neighborhoods and we don't explore
on side of our ten block radius.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Tell us what do you love about this neighborhood?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Well, it is exactly that factor that people love this neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
They love the trees, they love the homes, and.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
They love the sense of community.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
We come together for events like this, but this is
one of the best opportunities because you can.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
See people who grew up with you when you were
five years old and.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
You can see them when you're sixty years old out at.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
A venue like this. Because everybody wants.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
To be able to come out and.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Reconnect and this is a great ul.
Speaker 7 (03:31):
Want to do it.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
And this good food.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Food is amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Food is amazing. Now introduce our next person. Who is this.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Listen Sheldon Robinson. He is the president of Hilltop Hope,
which is a youth sports program, a non profit and
tutam playground. Sheldon Robinson, all.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Right, tell us about this. You're the mayor of Tusk
and tell us more so, my.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Thing of here is we get to show the kids
that the unity is so much greater when everyone is
getting along and having a good time. It is an
event that everyone is looking forward to and it just
grows every year.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Fantastic.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
If people want to know more about your program, how
do they find out more?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
So you go to Hilltoppoiinc. Dot com.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
It's for all youth.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
From age five up to twenty five, boys and girls
and tell us.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
One good thing about Overbook that you absolutely love.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
The trees and the phones, the structures are beautiful. People
love this area. We have so much green and it
just makes you so too, how much more and relax.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
You feel like at times you're almost walking into a
section of the suburbs because there is so much green
in this community. But the green that we get from
each other, the warmth is even more precious, is what
brings people back and makes them stead beautiful thing.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I love how you describe Overbrook and I hope that
more people come check this out.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
What we have.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
We have some people here.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
They need no introduction.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Were out here at Overbrook night Mark, come on out
Come on out Overbrook juneteen.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Yeah, well tell us who you are, because you have
a very important job right now.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
All right, Donad Bullock on the CEO of Project Home.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
We're working to end homelessness here right in the city
of Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, beautiful thing.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
My husband otis oldest boil out GPC out here supporting Overbrook.
Speaker 8 (05:36):
Come on out here, night Market.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
All these folks are out here supporting this wonderful event.
Stopped raining. The food is awfully good and you want
to come down here and check out the food venders.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Why should people come down?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
The food is awesome people, it's great good cause for
the community. Come on out, Come on.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Out Overbrook Nightmarket. Nowlock, come on down.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
We're having so much fun. And we end with some
spoken word. I love to welcome Mike.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Angeli to this day because I'm harrying out. Okay, thank
you for that beatiful introduction. And God, yes and Esten
are you both?
Speaker 7 (06:26):
How arey'all going?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Tonight? Y?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
You can do better than that, like the rain something
I'm gonna inst like we have your luck and joy
pray Mike give it up.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
For your house.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
So my name is Maria Angelin.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I am a spoken word artist local.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Here to Philly.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Thank you so much, Javon as well as a job
can for reaching out to me. Thank you so much
to doctor Craig Allen and of course Brett Morgan see this.
Thank you for having me so it is school Shaw.
I'd love to do with your poems for you. I'd
love to see life into you. That's what I'm passionate about.
Especialist my people's and what better days do so. So
(07:07):
this first poem is called platonic love, and I feel
like it's a form of love that we can talk
without the mars, Like when we're talking about like our relationships,
our community and everyone around us that we see that
holds us down. I feel like that deserves more shine.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
So I'm not to do one of that, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
And if you hear something you.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Like, you can snap, you can say mm.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Or you can just nod a little serious for.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Sure, love the energy. If there's one thing in life
that I had to learn the hard way is that
you can't.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Do it alone.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
You'll be people who are willing to bring the sun
to your doorstep when you can barely get out of bed.
Who's the holy oil over your most caroly thoughts who
take hold of trying strengths because getting your hair brain
is short. Ain't cheat now, and you can't afford to
be out here looking like you ain't even loved on.
And although loyalty is a hot commodity, that's believed that
(08:07):
God's gems are sort of safety for those who value them.
So why would you treat good friends and differently? You
and your chosen people have been cut from the same
cosmic class, so they're capable of wrapping you in the
fabric of the love that you never knew. They've been
equipped with to understand what you can and can't handle,
so you won't have to over explain the things that
(08:28):
pain you. So this is a won't save you. And
the days are getting darker, so you're gonna need good
folk who are willing to hunker down with you in
the war room in these days. Although you need rest
in the community, you're also gonna need something that you
need to bite on. So if you read or if
you hear this, i'llish you love like Regime and Knisia,
(08:50):
like Pam and Jina, like Kel and Kevan, like John
and Jesus, I wish you love like Regime and regime
and Max. I wish you love like Tom and Carlton,
like Tommy and Martin, like Kim and Ncy, like Molly
and Eas. Okay, maybe not that problem, but I wish
(09:12):
you the love that you were creative for. And just
because you ain't seeing it yet doesn't mean that it
don't exist. And if nobody's yet told you this, you
are never too much. You are nothing short of a
blessing than those who value you. There are still good
people that we've seen you move. Your joy and your
tears are welcome here, and we managed here.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
The Overbrook Night Market, a wonderful community event, will have
more insight after these messages
Good morning, and welcome to Insight, a show about empowering
our community. I'm Lorraine ballad Morrow. In today's show, we're
going to check in with civil rights attorney Cure Bradford Gray,
who gives us important perspective on how the Trump administration
is impacting our civil rights. But first, on Juneteenth, I
traveled over to sixty third in Lancaster for the fifth
(00:20):
annual Overbook Night Market sponsored by State Representative Morgan Cephas
and Overbook West neighbors. State Rep. Morgan Ciphus took to
the stage.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Years ago.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Are quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Food truck.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
That's the little food truck scene here in the city
of Philadelphia. What do you think about.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Brenda's in the over Wood community?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
And I said absolutely, say us, say Les, we're bringing
in here because we all remember when we were growing up,
well was a little Many Hill. We never really had
it in our backyard. But I don't want to reinforce
that this is what it looks like. The community, the
government come together to do something for the community. So
(01:27):
again we clack it up with a fifth an overthrown all.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I'm here at the Overbrook Night Market, which is hid
sixty third in Lancaster.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Tell us who you.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Are and what's happening today.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
So I'm Gregory Allen.
Speaker 7 (01:41):
I'm president and CEO of Overbrook plus Neighbors, and we
outside celebrating Overbrook in West Philly. Foody food trucks, three
beer vendors, and family zone, some DJs.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
We're just having a good old time overbook stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
You know, even though it was raining earlier, it didn't
seem to stop people from coming in a course, now
they're in is stopped. There's so many food vendors and
I'm getting really hungry right now because there's some good
things happening and lots of family fund But tell us
more about why we're doing this tonight. And this is Juneteenth, right.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
It's on Juneteenth.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
We're celebrating Overbrook in West Philly as a way of
honoring our history but also thinking about what.
Speaker 8 (02:24):
Our future will be here on LECs to Avenue, ford
Or and sixty third and like usnuff So we're imagining
a different neighborhood, a different business part of the black
and brown businesses, and there's places.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
For people that come out av a good time overbook style.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Yeah, so you brought a couple of people over the
with you. Tell us where they are.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Introduce them for us.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
So the first person to my ride is Vanessa Williams.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
She's a board number.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Vanessa.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Hi, tell us what's so special about Overthroad?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Because you know a lot of.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Us are staying in our neighborhoods and we don't explore
on side of our ten block radius.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Tell us what do you love about this neighborhood?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Well, it is exactly that factor that people love this neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
They love the trees, they love the homes, and.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
They love the sense of community.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
We come together for events like this, but this is
one of the best opportunities because you can.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
See people who grew up with you when you were
five years old and.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
You can see them when you're sixty years old out at.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
A venue like this. Because everybody wants.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
To be able to come out and.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Reconnect and this is a great ul.
Speaker 7 (03:31):
Want to do it.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
And this good food.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Food is amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Food is amazing. Now introduce our next person. Who is this.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Listen Sheldon Robinson. He is the president of Hilltop Hope,
which is a youth sports program, a non profit and
tutam playground. Sheldon Robinson, all.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Right, tell us about this. You're the mayor of Tusk
and tell us more so, my.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Thing of here is we get to show the kids
that the unity is so much greater when everyone is
getting along and having a good time. It is an
event that everyone is looking forward to and it just
grows every year.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Fantastic.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
If people want to know more about your program, how
do they find out more?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
So you go to Hilltoppoiinc. Dot com.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
It's for all youth.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
From age five up to twenty five, boys and girls
and tell us.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
One good thing about Overbook that you absolutely love.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
The trees and the phones, the structures are beautiful. People
love this area. We have so much green and it
just makes you so too, how much more and relax.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
You feel like at times you're almost walking into a
section of the suburbs because there is so much green
in this community. But the green that we get from
each other, the warmth is even more precious, is what
brings people back and makes them stead beautiful thing.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I love how you describe Overbrook and I hope that
more people come check this out.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
What we have.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
We have some people here.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
They need no introduction.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Were out here at Overbrook night Mark, come on out
Come on out Overbrook juneteen.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Yeah, well tell us who you are, because you have
a very important job right now.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
All right, Donad Bullock on the CEO of Project Home.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
We're working to end homelessness here right in the city
of Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, beautiful thing.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
My husband otis oldest boil out GPC out here supporting Overbrook.
Speaker 8 (05:36):
Come on out here, night Market.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
All these folks are out here supporting this wonderful event.
Stopped raining. The food is awfully good and you want
to come down here and check out the food venders.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Why should people come down?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
The food is awesome people, it's great good cause for
the community. Come on out, Come on.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Out Overbrook Nightmarket. Nowlock, come on down.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
We're having so much fun. And we end with some
spoken word. I love to welcome Mike.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Angeli to this day because I'm harrying out. Okay, thank
you for that beatiful introduction. And God, yes and Esten
are you both?
Speaker 7 (06:26):
How arey'all going?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Tonight? Y?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
You can do better than that, like the rain something
I'm gonna inst like we have your luck and joy
pray Mike give it up.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
For your house.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
So my name is Maria Angelin.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I am a spoken word artist local.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Here to Philly.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Thank you so much, Javon as well as a job
can for reaching out to me. Thank you so much
to doctor Craig Allen and of course Brett Morgan see this.
Thank you for having me so it is school Shaw.
I'd love to do with your poems for you. I'd
love to see life into you. That's what I'm passionate about.
Especialist my people's and what better days do so. So
(07:07):
this first poem is called platonic love, and I feel
like it's a form of love that we can talk
without the mars, Like when we're talking about like our relationships,
our community and everyone around us that we see that
holds us down. I feel like that deserves more shine.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
So I'm not to do one of that, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
And if you hear something you.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Like, you can snap, you can say mm.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Or you can just nod a little serious for.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Sure, love the energy. If there's one thing in life
that I had to learn the hard way is that
you can't.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Do it alone.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
You'll be people who are willing to bring the sun
to your doorstep when you can barely get out of bed.
Who's the holy oil over your most caroly thoughts who
take hold of trying strengths because getting your hair brain
is short. Ain't cheat now, and you can't afford to
be out here looking like you ain't even loved on.
And although loyalty is a hot commodity, that's believed that
(08:07):
God's gems are sort of safety for those who value them.
So why would you treat good friends and differently? You
and your chosen people have been cut from the same
cosmic class, so they're capable of wrapping you in the
fabric of the love that you never knew. They've been
equipped with to understand what you can and can't handle,
so you won't have to over explain the things that
(08:28):
pain you. So this is a won't save you. And
the days are getting darker, so you're gonna need good
folk who are willing to hunker down with you in
the war room in these days. Although you need rest
in the community, you're also gonna need something that you
need to bite on. So if you read or if
you hear this, i'llish you love like Regime and Knisia,
(08:50):
like Pam and Jina, like Kel and Kevan, like John
and Jesus, I wish you love like Regime and regime
and Max. I wish you love like Tom and Carlton,
like Tommy and Martin, like Kim and Ncy, like Molly
and Eas. Okay, maybe not that problem, but I wish
(09:12):
you the love that you were creative for. And just
because you ain't seeing it yet doesn't mean that it
don't exist. And if nobody's yet told you this, you
are never too much. You are nothing short of a
blessing than those who value you. There are still good
people that we've seen you move. Your joy and your
tears are welcome here, and we managed here.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
The Overbrook Night Market, a wonderful community event, will have
more insight after these messages
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