Black Love Day is the Valentine’s Day alternative celebrating Black love | The Daily Dot

The celebration that’s affirmed Black lives for over two decades is now online. Illustration via Max Fleishman, The Daily Dot.

By Deron Dalton Today, Black love fills the air. Valentine’s Day—an European-centric holiday, which packages romance and “I love yous” around Hallmark cards and boxes of Godiva—is not the only celebration Black people are participating in this weekend. Every year on Feb. 13 is a holiday called Black Love Day. Ayo Handy-Kendi, 64, is the founder […]

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