Storying and place-making share a dynamic relationship that has been undertheorized in community literacy research within Black communities. I extend an approach from a key literary influence, George Lamming’s classic In the Castle of My Skin (1953/1991), which resonated as a significant Caribbean postcolonial innovation of novelistic form that proposed unveiling the collective character of The Village. The Village as “place and symbol of a way of life” refuted the dominant Western episteme of “individual wills'' toward storying the development of a shared critical consciousness which served to underwrite the as-yet-unfinished transformation of their world. Assembling an interpretive lens framed by Lamming’s experimental literary form purposefully designed to reflect the familiar aesthetics of Black diasporic storying traditions, this narrative inquiry research project explores participant (re)storying (Thomas & Stornaiuolo, 2016) that contemporary West Philadelphia residents utilize to assert and express Black personhood and transformative possibility. Collaging together critical qualitative frameworks of Projects-in-Humanization (Kinloch & San Pedro, 2014), Critical Place Inquiry (Tuck & McKenzie, 2014), and Afrodiasporic story circle traditions (O’Neal, n.d.), I advance the critical qualitative method of Black Village Storying, which reveals multimodal poetics and embodied placemaking literacies as critical avenues in which Black West Philadelphia residents grasp and further otherwise arrangements of their sociopolitical worlds. The first finding from participant storying uplifts a shared literacy practice I articulate as philly soul musicking, a means of representing networked social performances entangled with the Black musical worlds of Philadelphia that promote and sustain Black presence, self-fashioning, and survival. The second finding frames the presence of a Black West Philadelphia spatial imaginary, whereas participant stories revealed a broad, dedicated, and sometimes conflicting mix of “imagination, education, agitation, organization, legislation, litigation, and mobilization,” (Lipsitz, 2011) meant to cultivate belongingness and Black neighborhood sustainability. The third finding highlights remixes and ruptures of thematic participant storying across generations of Black West Philadelphia. These contested accounts challenged the maintenance of an inclusive ethic of transgenerational fellowship towards embracing thriving Black futures where no one may be left behind.