Black Love Day

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Did You Know Feb 13 Is Black Love Day? Discover the Holiday


Black Love Day was founded in 1993 by Ayo Handy Kendi, director of the African American Holiday Association. According to Kendi, it is the third nationally observed black holiday – one of atonement, reconciliation and celebration. Black Love Day is observed as a 24-hour demonstration of black love, demonstrated through five specific acts: love towards the Creator, for self, for the family, within the black community and for the black race.

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Black Love Day – Feb. 13th

21st Year Theme: Self-Love to Transform Ourselves, to Transform the World



BLACK LOVE DAY (BLD) is the 3rd nationally, observed African American holiday (wholyday) of atonement, reconciliation, celebration and 24 hour demonstration of Black love, showing 5 Tenets (specific acts)– towards the Creator, for Self, for the Family, within the Black Community and for the Black Race. Also in 24 hours, Whites show “love in action” towards Blacks, atonement or introspection of their racial attitudes, behaviors and fears while demonstrating the 5 tenets.



BLD is an African-centered, alternative to the commercial Valentine’s Day with the wholistic goals of encouraging: 1) Black self-love instead of self-hatred; 2) Racial healing to stop White supremacy, racism and entitlement; 3) The return to Love to heal all relationships for increased peace to stop violence!



BRIEF HISTORY: BLD was founded in 1993 by Ayo Handy Kendi, founder/director of the African American Holiday Association (AAHA), and CEO of PositivEnergyWorks. Founder of Breathology, Transformative Practitioner, Speaker, Storyteller, Author, Host- “The Sage-ing Baby Boomer Show”.


Yearly, Black Love Day has grown in popularity similar to Juneteenth and Kwanzaa. It has become recognized on many college campuses, notably FAMU, Morgan State and Howard U. as well as in many communities.



Black Love Relationship Ceremonies have been hosted by AAHA in the D.C./Metropolitan area, annually since ’93. Other notable relationship ceremonies have been held in St. Louis, Mo, Richmond, Va, Los Angeles, Calif. and Benin, West Africa, with Handy-Kendi’s consultation.



Black Love Day has been included in the Smithsonian Institute’s “Multi-Cultural Calendar, Black Seeds Calendar, The United Black Community Calendar, the African American Registry, and in many books and articles. There are 1,810,000,000 Goggle entries on Black Love Day, as of Jan, 2014.


Millions have been exposed to the higher vibration of love’s healing power through presentations about BLD on radio, TV. and in print. (For complete history, read "The Black Love Book" written by Ayo Handy-Kendi, founder of BLD, www.PositivEnergyWorks.com).

http://www.africanamericanholidays.org/blackloveday.html