Black Love….I wish you a Happy Anniversary!!!!

Excited to wish this beautiful black couple a HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!! They are a wonderful example of a black love. I can’t say enough about these two. Wonderful family, loving children and great people to know……I introduce to some and others know her as Brown Mamas founder Muffy Mendoza.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY. MAY THE SAME LOVE THAT BROUGHT YOU TWO TOGETHER….KEEP THE FLAME LIT. WE AT THE VILLIAGE WISH YOU A HUNDRED YEARS MORE!

Happy Valentines Day….Sike

Peace and Love to you family! Let’s use this pagan holiday known to all as Valentine’s Day to reminisce and talk about the history of Black Love. This beautiful feeling that we call love stems all the way back beyond the time that we can even fathom. We used our love as strength, bonds, stability and much more. Continue reading

Black Marriage is Fighting Extinction!

I was excited this time last year to go home and find engagement announcements and wedding invitations in the mail. This year I had the privilege of attending 4 cultural weddings, that by the way were amazing, that confirmed my excitement even more. Previously, I was a little nervous that marriages among heterosexual black couples were being phased out. I began to notice a pattern of friends, families and associates that are in 5, 7 and 11 year relationships as just ‘boyfriend and girlfriend’.  I am not in the position to judge anyone Continue reading