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Black Love Day

February 13

Black Love Day (BLD), celebrated on February 13, is the third nationally observed African American holiday (wholyday).

Black Love is a day of atonement, reconciliation, celebration, and twenty-four-hour demonstration of love, showing five Tenets (specific acts): towards the Creator, for Self, for the Family, within the Black Community, and for the Black people.

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February 13
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“Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life...all of our life.”
–Henri Nouwen