Family, it's that time of year again - time for AYA Educational Institute’s yearly celebration of Black Love - Akoma Love during the coldest month of the year!
It's the time when we need to keep each other warm. It's the time when we celebrate Black romantic love draped in WARRIOR Love and Lore, dedicated to BUILDING more Black love, and dripping with honey-sweet HEALING love. Purchase your tickets ASAP!
This is our seventh year. You already know the power that seven evokes - intuition, spirituality, creativity, and hard work! With your presence, our Sat. Feb. 9th celebration will be the best yet. Use this opportunity to celebrate Black love. Too often we criticize the lack of it, or how it’s lacking. Too often we water the weeds and not the seeds. Water the seeds of authentic Black love.
We were inspired by Mama Ayo Handy’s Black Love Day tradition that she started over 30 years ago. Since then, we put the AYA spin on it in our Black Love celebration to keep it Black-on-Black in Black!
Come be a part of something wonderful. Come celebrate and seed that kind of Black love. We are clear that we’ll never allow others to pimp our Black love to get our Black dollars! Yes, everything is political. If you’re trying to use Black love as a fantasy destination that’ll take your mind off our struggles and our victories, then the other celebration named after some white guy named Valentine is for you.
It’s doubly hard in these times of resurging racism not to run to the familiar oppressor-sanctioned and promoted love celebrations. That’s exactly why we can’t do it - escapism is surrender. Instead, we want our Akoma Love celebration to strengthen us, to heal us, to make us better warriors, healers, and builders. The celebration is an anecdote to despair. While some lament the loss, we celebrate Black love - male and female love! If we want the youth to join and continue our work for our people’s victory and if we want them to throw up both their fists, instead of their hands and say “revolution,” we’ve got to make it sweet! That’s exactly what this Black Love - Akoma Love celebration does - lifts the sweetness of our love - even through struggle. If you love African people, then this is the place to be - 360 degrees of Black love!
Talk is cheap - especially “love-talk.” That’s why we anchor our celebration by lifting the love of those who have walked the walk - together. That “together” is sometimes with a spouse, sometimes it's with the community. Take a look at the Black Love album to see some of those whom we’ve awarded “Long Love,” “Revolutionary Love,” “Building Love,” “Healing Love,” and “Ancestral Love.”
DJ’s spin Black music across the generations and take your dedications. Live musicians play romantic tones, and spoken word flows, while the spirits - provided by Black wineries help to set the mood.
DJ’s spin Black music across the generations and take your dedications. Live musicians play romantic tones, and spoken word flows, while the spirits - provided by Black wineries help to set the mood.
Come bring your love and love aspirations for yourself and our people.
PS: Can't attend but want to support the event? Donate tickets for a young couple trying to make it work, or aspiring singles who want to be in the presence of powerful Black love.
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