Black Love Day was established by Washington, D.C. native Ayo Handy-Kendi on Feb. 13. 1993. Handy-Kendi, a community organizer, created the holiday to recognize communal love and pride of being ...

In 1993 Ayo Handy-Kendi, the founder of the nonprofit African American Holiday Association, created "Black Love Day" as a 24-hour period for Black people to love and cherish each other and ...

Researchers are shedding light on what they consider the first Black love story in the U.S ... people of the highlands surrounding the modern-day city of N’dalatando, a little over one hundred ...

LSA junior Emily Fridsma makes a flower bouquet for Black Love Day at the “Culture in the Courtyard” Black History Month event in the Michigan Union Pendleton room Monday evening. Arushi Sanghi/DAILY.