WHAT IS BLACK LOVE DAY (BLD)
Black Love Day (BLD) is the 3rd nationally commemorated African-American Holiday (wholyday) observance of atonement, reconciliation, celebration and 24 hour demonstration of Black Love through 5 tenets (loving acts) –
for The Creator,
for Self,
for the Black Family,
the Black Community,
and the Black Race.
BLD also encourages Whites in the 24 hour period to &show love in action towards Blacks by working on their own racial attitudes and behaviors..
The goals of this day are to increase peace, stop violence, end Black self-hatred and White supremacy/racism, to offer a spiritual, African-centered,
alternative to the commercialized, and sometimes violent, Valentine\’s Day.
Since 1993 the first BLD, Ayo Handy-Kendi, has shared the BLD tenets and their higher love vibrations with millions on radio, t.v, in print, on college campuses, with community organizations, and through her “Black Love Book”, which can be ordered through www.PositivEnergyWorks.com
Furthermore, Handy-Kendi is the founder of the Ritual of Reconciliation, the ritual of Black Love Day and a ritual of reconnection, reconciliation and conflict resolution, to be used anytime.
WHAT CAN BE DONE AFTER BLACK LOVE DAY
As a degreed counselor, community organizer and diversity trainer,Handy-Kendi has packaged all of her social justice and life experiences along with tools of transformation to release deep trauma, into a training course, \”Breath Circles for Racial, Diversity, Gender Healing. The 5 Black Love Acts and The Ritual of Reconciliation are at the heart of these trainings.
Handy-Kendi is the founder of Optimum Life Breathology, a Certified Breathologist (C.O.L..B), and CEO of PositivEnergyWorks, which is the co-sponsor of Black Love Day and many other AAHA productions.
She has over 50 years of experience in trans-formative breath practices and holistic healing of cellular memory which enabled her to evolve from her own pain, trauma and repressed memory of being sexually and verbally abused as a child. Self-care and breathology, later in life, helped her overcome trauma as a mother of a slain teenager, addictions to substances, domestic violence, evictions, homelessness and multiple deaths of several family members. With these experiences that honed her compassion and prompted her self-care through self-love, it has shaped her into an excellent steward for Black Love Day and beyond.
