BAVUAL The African Heritage Magazine Spring 2023

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THE COVER

BLACK LOVE

Relationships That Face the Ebb and Flow of Time

By Lorraine Jones

The mysteries of love defy logic. No one has yet figured out why men and women, despite their differences, bond together and form a family. Goodness knows that there are enough things to pull them apart: racial and ethnic prejudice, religion, work and money, children, personality and culture, and circumstances of birth and class, to name just a few.

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The trumph is that all of this has been overcome, because what really counts in the end is that two people found each other in a lonely world of 7 billion. That, as they say, has made all the difference. The point of this article is not to pass judgment on human choices but rather to point out the many permutations of the thing we call Black Love.

SPRING 2023


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