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BLACK LOVE DAY, FEB. 13, 2022 CELEBRATING THE 29TH RELATIONSHIP CEREMONY
2022 BLACK LOVE DAY EVENTS - INTERVIEWS - ACTIVITIES
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2022 BLACK LOVE DAY EVENTS - INTERVIEWS - ACTIVITIES
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Interview - lIVE sTREAMED.
February 11, 2022. entitled, " Black Love Day and the Healing of the Afrikan World."
Founder, Ayo Handy-Kendi was invited to speak on her developed intellect in the realm of Afrikan American Holidays, namely Black Love Day, which in 29 years of observance is most noteworthy.
US Afrika’s PALS series is devoted to lifting the voices of Pan Afrikan leaders who are making a difference in the Afrikan World.
contact 202-425-6681., Mwata Kairi Sankara (Kevin Washington, PhD)
WPFW INTERVIEW ON Thursday, Dr. Ayize Sabater, @ 6 p.m
MON, FEBRUARY 14TH. hosted by Amara, reporter and Askia Muhammad
Check the program grid at the WPFW, until the end of the month.
MON, FEBRUARY 14TH. hosted by Amara, reporter and Askia Muhammad
Check the program grid at the WPFW, until the end of the month.
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Audio/Video Gallery
Ayo Handy-Kendi, The Breath Sekou, founder of Black Love Day, Feb. 13th, with Kymone Freemon, founder of the Black Luv Festival, being interviewed by Roland Martin, Host of News One Show.
PRESS AND NEWS
AFRICAN AMERICAN HOLIDAY ASSOCIATION (AAHA)
Perpetuates and preserves culture through traditional and non-traditional holidays, celebration & rituals
202-667-2577 [email protected] www.AfricanAmericanHolidays.org
Contact: Rashida Thomas publicists
MEDIA ADVISORY: Feb. 22, 2019
The African American Holiday Association (AAHA) in collaboration with PositivEnergyWorks, LLC, is submitting this Media Advisory for your Media or community outlet, to distribute, promote and educate with this information. We are further requesting interview opportunities for Ayo Handy-Kendi, the Breath Sekou, founder of Black Love Day, Feb. 13, CEO, PositivEnergyWorks, and Founder/Director, African American Holiday Association (AAHA).
P.E.W. and AAHA have collaborated in stewarding BLACK LOVE DAY, Feb. 13th, a commemorative holiday and 24 hour demonstration of love to heal all of our relationships, that offers a spiritual, cultural, alternative to the commercialized Valentine’s Day. Since 1993, Black Love Day (BLD) has evolved from it’s grass-roots beginning in Washington, D.C. spreading it’s vision to countless, Black and White communities, locally, nationally and internationally. BLD is the 3rd recognized African-American holiday (wholyday) on Feb. 13 that encourages celebration, atonement, reconciliation, and the demonstration of 5 Loving Acts (Tenets) for 24 hours to increase peace, stop violence, end Black Self-Hatred and white Supremacy/Racism to heal all of our relationships.
BLD annually launches a theme for a year’s campaign of conscious raising, programs and activities. This year’s 2019 theme: "Heal a Woman, Heal a Nation" will drive an initiative of cellular memory cleansing and generational trauma healing activities in recognition of the 400th Anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans to be sold into bondage in North America in 1619 at Jamestown, VA. Many depictions of African men show the horrors of slaveries’ chains, whippings, lynchings and degradation, but women suffered these atrocities also, along with other wounds unique to enslavement as a “women”. Standing at the intersection of “race” and “gender”, AAHA/P.E.W. will help identify the inequalities that “Black women” have dealt with as the impact of the institution of slavery, the structural racism/gender discrimination that evolved from it, and how these deeply impactful issues that have created wounds that still linger today.
Help us, by promoting the “Heal the Woman, Heal the Nation after 400 years of Trauma” Initiative for a year of activities, presentations, and transformative healing”. Please contact us for scheduling a dynamic, inter-active interview around this “hot topic” as America celebrates this year, the 1619 landing in Jamestown, VA. Help us break the legacy of slavery’s impact on Black women’s relationships with themselves, their men, their children, other women, their spirituality. Learn about the need for re-programming women from Black self-hatred as we explore such examples of skin bleaching, modeling standards of white beauty and the white doll text. Learn about the disproportionate emotional, mental and physical health issues among women of color, as the legacy of stress and trauma from enslavement have created inequalities and hardships that have to be overcome. Experience our proven “wake up” solution, for generational/cellular healing to shift Black Women towards new cycles of self-love/self care necessary for Black women to stay resilient as the recognized “mothers of civilization" and cornerstone for the healing of Black families capable of rebuilding a strong, Black Nation.
PRESS RELEASE: To” Heal a Woman, Heal a Nation” Imitative After 400 Years of Trauma"
The “Heal a Woman, Heal a Nation After 400 Years of Trauma” is the 2019 year-long, Black Love initiative which focuses on the 400th Anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans to be sold into bondage in North America in 1619 at Jamestown, VA and the resultant generational trauma called “post traumatic slave syndrome” experienced by Black Women from this “mafia”. Special “BreathShops On-Line” programming for trauma/stress release; Breath Circles for Racial/Diversity Healing will be offered to campuses; “Freedom Songs”, an re-enactment of an enslaved women for D.C. Emancipation Day and Juneteenth will spark racial/gender compassion; breath and sound visualiztions/activations will heal sub-conscious cellular/generational memory for collective transformation around this theme; and a “Radical Self-Care Festival” planned for Mother’s Day, May 4th.
Black Love Day, Feb. 13th, this year in 2019, is celebrating 26 years as a holiday for creating solutions for better relationships between Blacks and Whites to increase peace, stop violence, heal black self-hatred and white supremacy/racism. This year’s theme and annual initiative: “Heal a Woman, Heal a Nation” quite timely focuses on the 400th anniversary beginning of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and its’ resultant historical impact that still lingers at the root of so many relationship dysfunctions today.
“Many depictions of Black men show the horrors of slaveries’ chains, whippings, lynchings and degradation, but women suffered these atrocities also, along with other wounds unique to enslavement as a Black women, such as rape, breeding, mental emotional abuse, rampant fear in terrorized families, instability, poverty, oppression and powerlessness as property and as a wife, with generations of stereotyping and conditioning to conform to White standards of beauty and acceptability.
We must release the suppressed cellular/generational trauma and clear the collective memories so that the post traumatic stress disorders can be healed. We have to wake up these memories, to alleviate the mental and physical health challenges of Black women to be healthier, happier cornerstones for their families and communities. stated Ayo Handy-Kendi, founder of Black Love Day- Feb. 13, the non-profit, African American Holiday Association (AAHA), founder/CEO of PositivEnergyWorks, a Certified Optimum Life Breathologists aka The Breath Sekou and Mama Ayo, the Storyteller.
She has successfully developed systems of cellular clearing that helped her heal as a sexually/emotionally abused child, mother of a slain son, survivor of domestic violence and addictions. She has also “breathed” with millions on radio, t.v., in print, on stage, and in private practice sharing her signature, Breath Circles for Racial and Diversity Healing, Rituals of Reconciliation and Transcendence Breathwork.
Standing at the intersection of “race” and “gender”, this initiative will also identify the inequalities and oppression that “Black women” have dealt with as the impact of the institution of slavery, the structural racism/gender discrimination that evolved from it, which created generational “powerlessness” as perpetual property and endless servitude as a woman. Today, this issue shows up in economic gaps in pay wages, unfair opportunities in housing, wealth building up-ward mobility and legal injustices that keep Black women disproportionately incarcerated.
For further information contact: www.PositiEnergyWorks.com or 202-667-2577.
Perpetuates and preserves culture through traditional and non-traditional holidays, celebration & rituals
202-667-2577 [email protected] www.AfricanAmericanHolidays.org
Contact: Rashida Thomas publicists
MEDIA ADVISORY: Feb. 22, 2019
The African American Holiday Association (AAHA) in collaboration with PositivEnergyWorks, LLC, is submitting this Media Advisory for your Media or community outlet, to distribute, promote and educate with this information. We are further requesting interview opportunities for Ayo Handy-Kendi, the Breath Sekou, founder of Black Love Day, Feb. 13, CEO, PositivEnergyWorks, and Founder/Director, African American Holiday Association (AAHA).
P.E.W. and AAHA have collaborated in stewarding BLACK LOVE DAY, Feb. 13th, a commemorative holiday and 24 hour demonstration of love to heal all of our relationships, that offers a spiritual, cultural, alternative to the commercialized Valentine’s Day. Since 1993, Black Love Day (BLD) has evolved from it’s grass-roots beginning in Washington, D.C. spreading it’s vision to countless, Black and White communities, locally, nationally and internationally. BLD is the 3rd recognized African-American holiday (wholyday) on Feb. 13 that encourages celebration, atonement, reconciliation, and the demonstration of 5 Loving Acts (Tenets) for 24 hours to increase peace, stop violence, end Black Self-Hatred and white Supremacy/Racism to heal all of our relationships.
BLD annually launches a theme for a year’s campaign of conscious raising, programs and activities. This year’s 2019 theme: "Heal a Woman, Heal a Nation" will drive an initiative of cellular memory cleansing and generational trauma healing activities in recognition of the 400th Anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans to be sold into bondage in North America in 1619 at Jamestown, VA. Many depictions of African men show the horrors of slaveries’ chains, whippings, lynchings and degradation, but women suffered these atrocities also, along with other wounds unique to enslavement as a “women”. Standing at the intersection of “race” and “gender”, AAHA/P.E.W. will help identify the inequalities that “Black women” have dealt with as the impact of the institution of slavery, the structural racism/gender discrimination that evolved from it, and how these deeply impactful issues that have created wounds that still linger today.
Help us, by promoting the “Heal the Woman, Heal the Nation after 400 years of Trauma” Initiative for a year of activities, presentations, and transformative healing”. Please contact us for scheduling a dynamic, inter-active interview around this “hot topic” as America celebrates this year, the 1619 landing in Jamestown, VA. Help us break the legacy of slavery’s impact on Black women’s relationships with themselves, their men, their children, other women, their spirituality. Learn about the need for re-programming women from Black self-hatred as we explore such examples of skin bleaching, modeling standards of white beauty and the white doll text. Learn about the disproportionate emotional, mental and physical health issues among women of color, as the legacy of stress and trauma from enslavement have created inequalities and hardships that have to be overcome. Experience our proven “wake up” solution, for generational/cellular healing to shift Black Women towards new cycles of self-love/self care necessary for Black women to stay resilient as the recognized “mothers of civilization" and cornerstone for the healing of Black families capable of rebuilding a strong, Black Nation.
PRESS RELEASE: To” Heal a Woman, Heal a Nation” Imitative After 400 Years of Trauma"
The “Heal a Woman, Heal a Nation After 400 Years of Trauma” is the 2019 year-long, Black Love initiative which focuses on the 400th Anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans to be sold into bondage in North America in 1619 at Jamestown, VA and the resultant generational trauma called “post traumatic slave syndrome” experienced by Black Women from this “mafia”. Special “BreathShops On-Line” programming for trauma/stress release; Breath Circles for Racial/Diversity Healing will be offered to campuses; “Freedom Songs”, an re-enactment of an enslaved women for D.C. Emancipation Day and Juneteenth will spark racial/gender compassion; breath and sound visualiztions/activations will heal sub-conscious cellular/generational memory for collective transformation around this theme; and a “Radical Self-Care Festival” planned for Mother’s Day, May 4th.
Black Love Day, Feb. 13th, this year in 2019, is celebrating 26 years as a holiday for creating solutions for better relationships between Blacks and Whites to increase peace, stop violence, heal black self-hatred and white supremacy/racism. This year’s theme and annual initiative: “Heal a Woman, Heal a Nation” quite timely focuses on the 400th anniversary beginning of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and its’ resultant historical impact that still lingers at the root of so many relationship dysfunctions today.
“Many depictions of Black men show the horrors of slaveries’ chains, whippings, lynchings and degradation, but women suffered these atrocities also, along with other wounds unique to enslavement as a Black women, such as rape, breeding, mental emotional abuse, rampant fear in terrorized families, instability, poverty, oppression and powerlessness as property and as a wife, with generations of stereotyping and conditioning to conform to White standards of beauty and acceptability.
We must release the suppressed cellular/generational trauma and clear the collective memories so that the post traumatic stress disorders can be healed. We have to wake up these memories, to alleviate the mental and physical health challenges of Black women to be healthier, happier cornerstones for their families and communities. stated Ayo Handy-Kendi, founder of Black Love Day- Feb. 13, the non-profit, African American Holiday Association (AAHA), founder/CEO of PositivEnergyWorks, a Certified Optimum Life Breathologists aka The Breath Sekou and Mama Ayo, the Storyteller.
She has successfully developed systems of cellular clearing that helped her heal as a sexually/emotionally abused child, mother of a slain son, survivor of domestic violence and addictions. She has also “breathed” with millions on radio, t.v., in print, on stage, and in private practice sharing her signature, Breath Circles for Racial and Diversity Healing, Rituals of Reconciliation and Transcendence Breathwork.
Standing at the intersection of “race” and “gender”, this initiative will also identify the inequalities and oppression that “Black women” have dealt with as the impact of the institution of slavery, the structural racism/gender discrimination that evolved from it, which created generational “powerlessness” as perpetual property and endless servitude as a woman. Today, this issue shows up in economic gaps in pay wages, unfair opportunities in housing, wealth building up-ward mobility and legal injustices that keep Black women disproportionately incarcerated.
For further information contact: www.PositiEnergyWorks.com or 202-667-2577.
MEDIA APPEARANCES OF AYO HANDY-KENDI
PositivEnergyWorks focus on Optimum Life Breathology, along with Sekou Ayo Handy-Kendi's promotion of Black Love Day (BLD) and its “Ritual of Reconciliation”, have been gaining in
popularity since their co-creation. All of these efforts have been highly publicized on radio, TV. print and on the Internet.
Notable appearances include:
Ernest White of WDCU.s Crosstalk, The Cathy Hughes Show on WOL, Washington Post
columnist, Dorothy Gilliam Wash and reporter, DeNeen Brown,, The Capitol Spotlight, WPFW, WHUR, News Dimensions,
Minority Report, Dominique DiPrima-KJLH 102.3 FM, The Steve Harvey Morning Show, Roland Martin News One, Retirement T.V., Verizon’s Internet Profiles, WUSA-TV, WRC/News Channel 8, The Washington Post, NewYork Times, Inner-Light Internet Radio,
Front-page articles have been written about BLD in the Washington Post by two award-winning columnists, Dorothy Gilliam and DeNeen Brown. It.s been featured in NNPA (The Nat.l Black Newspaper Assoc..s) over 200 syndicated newspapers, The Associated Press, CNN, Washington Informer, The Afro-American Newspaper and Florida A & M University Campus Magazine (FAMU Journal).
Ayo Handy-Kendi has been a frequent guest on many syndicated talk shows: American
Urban Radio.s Bev Smith Show over 300 Stations; award-winning, Tom Joyner.s
Morning Show, Metro News, syndicated to over 100 affiliates; ABC.s Smooth Jazz 105.9
host, Tom Groomes; Pacifica Network News and WPFW -FM; CNN News, WUSA, WJLA
and XM-the Power with host Mark Thompson (Msimela Mfume) a tremendous supporter
over the years and radio host, Bernie McCain.
International interviews include Voice of America over 22 nations; BBC, Brazil and Canada.
Bob Law, Bev Smith and Tom Joyner.
WPGC, News Channel 8 and Tom Grooms of WJZY;
BLD has been listed in “JUBILEE! A Year of African-American Celebration
2003, a calendar of The Smithsonian Anacostia Museum and Center for African
American History and Culture”; was listed in the AfriCalendar out of Canada and has for
several years been listed in the nationally distributed, “The Black Seeds Calendar”. The
autohoritive “Chase.s Guide to Annual Events” have listed Black Love Day for years.
Author Frank Wills also listed Black Love Day, as a viable alternative to Valentine.s Day
in his book, “How to Make Love to a Real Black Man – advice to Black Women from a
Black Man, ISBN: 1-56411-352-3, published 2005.
Along the way, Black Love Day hit the Internet with Google Search Engines noting
many BLD entries. MelaNet.com launched the first BLD global chat page and many
internet sites have featured Black Love Day.
Washington, D.C., has hosted the official Black Love Relationship Ceremony since
inception, 1993. Many other communities have hosted Black Love ceremonies held on
Feb 13 or otherwise. In D. C., Kymone Freeman, a nex-generation activist/award-
winning playwright, created the annual Black Luv Festival in 1997 held in the Fall of
each year, focusing on HIV/AIDS awareness and allowing me to serve as the official
“grandmother” to the festival. Brother Johnson Lancaster and his African-centered,
Emporium Bookstore fellowship in St. Louis, Missouri, held the first Black Love
Relationship Ceremony, outside of D. C. A D.C. based Black Love Relationship
Ceremony which hosted the H.E. Cyrille S. Oguin, the Ambassador of Benin, led to an
invitation to officiate a Ritual of Reconciliation ceremony in Benin West Africa.offered at the “Gate of Return”
for the 2005 Roots and Gospel Festival reconciling Benin.s duplicity in the Trans
Atlantic Slave Trade, where millions of Africans left the shores of the continent.
Through the efforts of Brother Manifest, founder of Happily Natural Day, we hosted the
3rd official Black Love Relationship Ceremony, in 2008, in Richmond, VA.
Many college campuses have also held ceremonies, notably, Portland Community College, FAMU (Florida A & M), Ubiquity organization at Howard University, Morgan State College, Bowie Maryland, Chateam College in Pennsylvania, Portland . I.m also aware of programs held all over the country,
Ayo Handy-Kendi has also appeared internationally, at the Global Inspiration Conference (GIC) in the Canary Islands, South Africa, Austria, France; Liberia West Africa, International Teacher’s Conf.; Benin West Africa, Roots & Gospel Festival invited by Benin President Keriku; and Queen Afua’s City of Wellness; Blacks in Government; and some 500 or more local and national events.