You're invited to AYA's 4th Annual Black Love Day Dinner celebration. We want you to affirm your love or the love you seek in grand style! We've made

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Dinner, Live Music, Dancing, Games, Door Prizes, DJ Sundjata, Sala Instruction

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You're invited to AYA's 4th Annual Black Love Day Dinner celebration. We want you to affirm your love or the love you seek in grand style! We've made it easy to spend those dollars dripping with Black Love so that they create a cascading flow of more love in the Black community. This flows back to envelope and nurture your love. Join us to celebrate the cycle of Black love - Ancestors-Community-Family-Intimate and around again. Remember Black Love is Black Wealth - Let's share the love, and keep the wealth - in our community.

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Saturday, Feb. 13th, 7 PM EST
Questions?
Call - Events by Sarafina 470.236.1494
Call - AYA - Yinka Winfrey: 770.8829515
Email us at afiyao@gmail.com
Reserve your space. Buy your tickets now.
4rd Annual Black Love Day Celebration

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Sis., Dr., Mama, Nana Frances Cress Welsing

Ancestral Love -

Come celebrate love kissed by the ancestors and wrapped in service to the family, the community, our people and our war against white-supremacy, for self-determination, and sovereignty.

The Black Love Day honoree for Ancestral Love has been chosen. We are pleased to honor Sis., Dr., Mama, Nana Frances Cress Welsing. Welsing was a psychiatrist, author, activist. For many of us, her spirit and love still lives. To receive the award for her will be another sister-scholar-warrior-healer - Dr.,Mama, Elder Marimba Ani

This is what makes AYA's Black Love Day different - We celebrate 360 degrees of Black Love. We know that the romantic love you already have or that you seek to have is "alien love," unless it is kissed by the ancestors.

Have you shaped a love or are you seeking a love that will withstand ancestral scrutiny and receive that vaulted ancestral kiss?

On Saturday, Nana Welsing's questions about your love will guide you.

Can't you hear her now? READ MORE

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Baba Hekim and Mama Tamu

Revolutionary Black Love
Just how do you build a love that will sustain revolutionary fighting, healing and building, in the face of oppression?

Ours is a daily, yet protracted challenge. To make revolution, we need revolutionary love. Revolutionary Love nurtures warriors, nurtures healers, nurtures builders.
Drum roll please ... the selection for the 2016 BLD Revolutionary Love award has been made. And the winning couple is - Mama Tamu Kanyama - Ann Norman and Baba Hekima Kanyama .

This Revolutionary Love couple has been married for 46 years. Their attraction goes beyond the physical. Their revolutionary love is built on their love for our people and their determination to make revolutionary change for our people - in their life times. They each came to the relationship with that fire. It is that flame that attracted them most. They also came with their differences. Ironically, it is those difference that contributed to their making Revolutionary Love. They appreciated and used the differences to compliment each others' strengths and weakness, habits and proclivities.

Want the revolutionary part? Some things are just not for email! Join us to get the real 411.

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Jihad and Sakenah

Long Love
The wait is over. I’m so pleased to be able to announce for the AYA Black Love Day committee the Long Love Honorees for 2016. Long Love .. . Long Love is seasoned love. Long love is made new over and over again. As each person grows, the love grows. As each one in the couple discovers deeper parts of themselves, the love deepens. As the challenges of life make us discover or develop anew, the love becomes renewed.
Time and the trials and tribulations of life make LONG LOVE sweet love.
And the honorees are: Baba Jihad and Mama Sakinah Abdullah. Revolutionaries and Muslims since high school, their love has been a journey and a blessing to our communities - Atlanta, GA, Miami, Florida, Syracuse, NY and points in between. They are still active.Read More

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Tanya Washington

Black Community-Warrior Love
Come celebrate love anointed by the elders and wrapped in the service to the family, the community, our people and our cause for freedom, self-determination, and sovereignty. Sometimes “Free the Land” starts with the land that you’re living on right now!

For Community-Warrior Love, we are pleased to Honor Sister, Professor, Mama, Tanya Washington. Tanya’s fight has been a local affair, yet it touches us all. Driven by her identification with and love for our community, she chose not to abandon it for personal comfort. Instead, she’s used her scholarship as a lawyer, professor and organizer to defend the homes and families in Peoplestown from government and corporate take-over.

Tanya’s example of Community-Warrior Love underscores the fact that only love birthed by active community loving (the action verb) protects and uplifts the community. By contrast, the individual “just-you-and-me” love is created by aliens and it depends on alien affirmations and material acquisitions. Such love can only serve aliens.

Sister Washington didn’t go for the illusion. READ MORE

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Baba Chasawn & Mama Shevon

Building Love -

Honoring Cashawn Myers and Shevon Myers
Most of you know that AYA's answer to oppression is to nurture the Warrior, Healer, & Builder in us all. Of the three, too often the builders in us and in our community get slighted. Revolutionary Building is often quiet work. So, I want you to help us make some noise and lift up AYA's Black Love Day 2016 Building Love Honorees - Mama Shevon and Baba Cashawn Myers.
When working on the foundation, it's often below ground and can't be seen by passers-by. Movies are made about the defining battle or the healer who snatches life from the jaws of death. The builder drops a small seed in the ground, or in the mind of a student. Not so dramatic, right? When the organizer puts up one more sign or passes out one more flyer, it's so hum-drum. Where's the drama, the conflict, the action? When we think of the Panthers, we seldom think of them feeding our children. We neglect the revolutionary builder!
Our honorees have been instrumental in building HABESHA in Atlanta, Baltimore, and in Ghana.

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http://ayaeducation.blogspot.com/…/building-love-honoring-c…

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Sweet lips, aren't they? Made sweeter because they will be at our AYA's 4th annual Black Love Day Dinner Celebration on Saturday, Feb. 13th. Reserve your spot, get your advanced tickets.

C'mon, give the drummer some and the other musicians too. Give the Black venue owner some. Give the chef some and give AYA some.

When you add the love-energy that you bring to the place, you'll be giving the whole Black community some. Even the ancestors might show you a sensual move or two. Don't trip. How do you think you got here? Authentic Black Love is contagious; it goes way way way back, and will go way, way way forward, unless we give it away.

Black Love Day is a wonderful celebration of authentic, intergenerational, African-culturally connected Black love that remembers that Black Love is Black wealth.

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Bring your dancing shoes for Afri-Sala instruction and dance party!

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Anana Harris Parris, founder of AfriSalsa and theSelf Care Movement will kick off the after party.

Saturday, Feb. 13th, 7 PM EST
Questions?
Call - Events by Sarafina 470.236.1494
Call - AYA - Yinka Winfrey: 770.8829515
Email us at afiyao@gmail.com
Reserve your space. Buy your tickets now.
4rd Annual Black Love Day Celebration

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