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AYA’s Black Love Day 2021 - Together around the world!

Spring, 2020

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Black Power & Black Wealth

Feb. 13th, 2021 Program

Welcome

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Afiya & Wekesa

Akoma Love

Afiya & Wekesa

Akoma Love

Doin’ It!

Welcome

We are delighted that you’ve decided to join us to spread AYA’s Black Love Day (BLD) celebration. The rightous fear, sickness and death occassioned by the “plan-demic” instructs us not to gather physically in one place in Atlanta, GA as we have for the last 8 years. Instead of folding, or shrinking, we’re expanding. With your help, we’ll celebrate Black Love on a scale grander than ever. COVID and its handlers can’t stop Black Love. It’s what has allowed us to live through the invasion of our home-land, captivity, Jim-Crow, the crack epidemic and more. Active Black Love stimulates and boots our immune response. While some of us choose to remain physically distant, Baba Akinyele & Mama Aminata Umoja (Right) - the first BLD-WHB Revolutionary Long Love award recipients - remind us to never be socially distant!

The Umojas

Black Love is not an abstraction, it’s demonstrated action.

Cashapp $afiya Zelle afiyao@gmail.com Venmo @Wekesa- Madzimoyo Facebook facebook.com/afiy a.madzimoyo/ PayPal.Me paypal.me/wekesa lumm

Checks Make payable to: AYA Educational Institute; 852 Brafferton Place, Stone Mountain, GA 30083 To Join our Network: Here! To become a supporting AYA-WHB member: Here! Thanks, Afiya

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Afiya & Wekesa

Akoma Love

Making it Possible

Congratulates AYA Educational Institute on its 9th Annual Black Love Day Dinner Celebration for 2021 and for consistently lifting 360 degrees of Black Love. Debra Watkins, Founder Emerita Director of Strategic Partnerships Shelly Henderson, ABEN’s Executive Director Debra Watkins, Founder Emerita Director of Strategic Partnerships Shelly Henderson, ABEN’s Executive Director

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Afiya & Wekesa

Akoma Love

Making it Possible

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Afiya & Wekesa

Akoma Love

Making it Possible

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Afiya & Wekesa

Akoma Love

Making it Possible

Afiya & Wekesa

Akoma Love

Making it Possible

This service is designed for families who want their child to flourish along with their peers in the classroom or home school environment. Your child will be provided with personalized instruction designed to meet her/his specific academic needs as well as expectations of the family. These services can range from homework support to strengthening performance in specific academic areas. There is also the option for the instructor to maintain contact with the classroom teacher in order to provide consistent academic support to the child. The lessons will be interactive in order to engage the child and encourage a love for learning. Small group instruction is also available.

This service offers families the opportunity to have their child learn more and advance in academic areas beyond the traditional classroom pace. Stimulating lessons will be designed to engage the child and encourage a love for learning. In addition to routine classroom or home school assignments, families have the option to have supplemental work assigned. This is an ideal option for families who are looking for their child to be challenged to her/his greatest potential. Small group instruction is also available.

Jawana Msola holds a B.S. in Psychology and an Early Childhood Education Master of Art in Teaching (M.A.T.) from Howard University. Her passion for creating stimulating, creative and interactive learning experiences for children is the essence of her curriculum..

Founder / Instructor

ngoloelp@gmail.com

www.ngololearning.com

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February 13th, 7:00 PM 7:00 PM Welcoming Libation History/Purpose/Goals Evening Lineup Honoring of Past Honorees Dinner DJ Sundjata Kickoff Continuing in BLD Program Main Room Walk Down Memory Lane Honoring of BLD Committee Liberation Plate Tribute 8:00 - 8:30 PM African Vendor Marketplace Presentations (Vendors will showcase their businesses) 8:00 PM BLD Program Room The Original Black Love Day / AYA’s WHB Black Love Celebration Past Honorees Presentations

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9:00 - 9:30 PM African Vendor Marketplace Presentations (Vendors will showcase their businesses) 9:00 PM BLD Program Room Black Love Day and Black Liberation: The Connection Words of Wisdom from Past Honorees 9:30 PM Continual Honoring of Past Honorees Honoring of Working Committee of 2021 AYA Sales Builders Imani Alcantara Mama Yaa and NMaat (African Vendor Marketplace) Medaasi to our Businesses and Organizations 10:00 PM Closing Raffle (You must be present to win) (A ticket will be entered for you if you dedicate a song (see form) and / or purchase from a vendor in the African Vendor Marketplace)

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Raymond and Rosa Parks Married in 1932 Together for 45 Years

Congratulations, on your 9th annual Black Love Day celebration

Mama Virgie Sanyang Pearl Academy

Wishing you all the best on your 9th Black Love celebration

Monica & Wade Muhammad

“I wish you power that equals your intelligence and your strength. I wish you success that equals your talent and determination. And I wish you faith.” - Betty Shabazz

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U M U N T U

nga muntu, nga bantu

Congratulations, for yet another fantastic Black Love Celebration

Tamu and Hekima Kanyama - African Community Centers

If you know AYA, then you know we are all about that Warrior-Healer- Builder mind-set and skill-set. So it is natural that we’re lifting love that makes us better warriors, healers, and builders for and with our families and our community. On the other hand, promoting escaptist fantasy-love is an invitation for you and me to deny the oppressive reality that we must change for real love to grow, and grow strong. Denial leads to delusion, further bondage, and death. AYA’s BLD celebration lifts love that leads to life and that strengthens us to fight, heal and build -- love that nurtures a community that can and will nurture your love, our children and our people. We celebrate male/female couple love. We celebrate ancestral love. We celebrate community love. Black love is black power and black wealth. Let’s use it to strengthen us to live strong, to remove those who oppress us, and to help us become a sovereign people and return ourselves to our traditional greatness.

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U M U N T U

nga muntu, nga bantu

In reality, AYA’s tools, approaches and programs are designed to get us through “trouble, and to heal the wounds of the MAAFA Afrikan captivity and continued oppression. We’re proud to say that we have helped thousands over these 22 years. Unfortunately, we’ve not created adequate ways to gather those thousands into a supportive and continual educational and productive community Until now!

Warrior, Healer, Builder -Love

Mama Marimba Ani & Baba Oshiyemi Adelabu

Determined to counter Western hedonism and their pimp -Valentine, we’ve often not created a safe welcoming place for intimate sexual love. Some of us have become uncomfortable to even talk about it. It’s as if we’ve wrapped white puritanical values in Kinte cloth. Somebody had to get busy for us to be here! Doing so has left our young adults and people of all ages prey to Valentine’s invitation to a night and an expression of love that helps them escape the day-to- day reality of our existence. The opportunity is for us to promote love - intimate and otherwise - that strengthens us to change our day-to-day existence. From the beginning, AYA’s Black Love Day celebration has sought to change this. Please, let’s encourage new love - hot, fresh, silly, invincible - even for those of us with gray hair who are starting over. If we don’t guide this love, someone else will. Let’s get more comfortable talking about love and making love and relationsips that are complementary- as Baba Baruti and Mama Yaa would say.

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Intimacy For Sovereignty

Complemenarity!

“When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you. There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people." Fannie Lou Hamer

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U M U N T U

nga muntu, nga bantu

Perry “Pap” and Fannie Lou Hamer Married in 1944 - 1977

Congratulations, on your 9th annual Black Love Day celebration Chke Akua

Spring, 2020

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Thank you for choosing to show Black

love with your affection, attention,

and your money!

Ida B. Wells married famed attorney, Ferdinand Barnett, in 1895. Their union was a marriage and a partnership of ideas and action. Wells was a journalist and Barnett founded the first Black newspaper in Chicago, The Chicago Conservator, in 1878. Wells wrote for the paper, was part owner and editor.

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nga muntu, nga bantu

Ida B. Wells-Barnette

Congratulations, on your 9th annual Black Love Day celebration Anana Harris Parris The Self Care Agency

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Baba Watani and Mama Heidi - Revolutionary Love Honorees 2015

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Together - around the globe -

Tonight, we are harnessing the power of cell phones, tablets, and computer screens. Please show your love streaming to us so we’ll enjoy Black Love Day together. @ At a Black-owned resturant? Shout them out and show them off. @ Your own dinning table? Show off those with liberation plates! • Want more music and less “talk?” Go to our DJ Sunjata music room. • Want to shop with our venders? Go to Afrikan Market Place

Share your love via phone, tablet, computer

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Baba Mawuli and Janna Davis - Long Love Warrior Honorees 2015

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Honorees - around the globe -

This year we’re reconizing the love of those we’ve honored over the past nine years. Fortunately, they are still with us and their love - for each other, and/or our community - is stronger than ever. Change always presents opportunity. This time we want you to choose the honorees by lifting up the Black love that has inspried you. 1. As you are dinning with your loved one, please call up and talk about the couple whose love inspires your love for each other and for servicing our community. 2. Also lift up a living example of warrior- healer-builder love to the Black community. 3. Finally, lift up an ancestor who inspires and guides your love.

Share your love via phone, tablet, computer

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DJ Sunjata poppin

from 7:30 pm

(EST) Until

He’ll broadcast your musical dedications and maybe even your effusions of love.

Music & Dancing

Anana Harris Parris teaching us AfroSalsa

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Let’s Eat Together

This is where it all started at the Intimate Cafe in Atlanta, GA on Feb. 13th, 2013. The host and Co- Creator pictured above is Yolanda (Yofi) Willis. The Intimate Chef, Ameerah Watson, created dinners and desserts that made the Black Love Dinner special.