Ultra Volume 1

ULTRA Vol. 1 celebrates the legacy of Mamie & Weaver, their family, friends, and neighbors in Belmont West Philadelphia. Sourced from the Hall family archive, the newspaper features the history of the family's former, storefront, dry cleaners, turned community arts space, honoring the importance of historically Black neighborhoods.

ULTRA includes photographs of family members, letters, depictions from the block, and documentation from past exhibitions that have taken place in the space.

Ultra is a publication designed to fight erasure by gentrification.

40-page digital offset newsprint, 14.75 in. x 11.5 in., edition 150, second printing, 2024

Printed by Newspaper Club
Design by Shakeil Greeley
Co-published by Mamie & Weaver’s Ultra & Seaton Street Press

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