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Black Love Day (BLD)
February 13, 2022
Black Love Day (BLD)
29th Black Love Day, Feb. 13, 2022
Global Theme: “Finding Spiritual Joy Through Black Love”
Inspires Hope in a Time of Trauma, Fear and Covid Burn-out
Ayo Handy-Kendi, 64, is the founder of the African American Holiday Association, a non-profit that seeks to preserve black culture through tradition and ritual. Handy-Kendi, who also goes by Mama Ayo, created Black Love Day in 1993 as an alternative holiday for black people to celebrate and love one another at a time of year when love is already in the air.
Black Love Day has risen to prominence over the course of its 23-year history and in recent years, the holiday has become a popular hashtag affirming many forms of black love on Twitter and Instagram.
Learn more: http://www.africanamericanholidays.org/blackloveday.html