Why Black Marriage Day?
Black Marriage Day will be celebrated Sunday, March 26, 2023. It is celebrated annually at locally sponsored events hosted by faith-based and community groups on the fourth Sunday of each March. Starting with only 30 cities in 2003, marriage activists in hundreds of cities up to the present celebrate Black Marriage Day to highlight the benefits of marriage, pay tribute to successful marriages, and to promote marriage in the Black Community.
Local government proclamations and community organizations have recognized Black Marriage Day as promoting the strong families needed to build and maintain safe and healthy communities. More than 300 local sponsors plan to celebrate Black Marriage Day 2023 Sunday, March 26, with the theme: “Count Your Marriage as Joy.”
Why Black Marriage Day?
Black Marriage Day is sponsored by the Wedded Bliss Foundation, Inc. Founder and Executive Director Dr. Nisa Muhammad created the national initiative to create cultural change in the Black community to reconsider marriage. The Black community has the lowest rates of marriage. This requires a specific effort to help more couples consider marriage, more couples reduce out-of-wedlock childbirth, and more couples reconsider divorce.
Marriage is the most critical relationship in an adult's life next to God. Studies show that, for the couple, marriage produces longer life, better health, higher income, and a more significant accumulation of wealth. Married couples report better sexual relations, and their children do better. In communities where marriages flourish, property values are higher, crime is lower, and better schools exist. In communities where marriages fail or fail to happen, the opposite exists; property values are lower, crime is higher, and schools are poor.
Count Your Marriage as Joy
According to US Government figures, the Black community has suffered for years with declining marriage rates, increasing divorces, and nearly 70 percent of their children born out of wedlock. Black women are the most unpartnered group in the country. The goal is to help couples achieve their wedded bliss dreams and help more children benefit from married parents.