Nisa Ra's short film Black Love Lives, rocked the small crowd at Oakland's Uptown Apartments Screening Room Sunday evening. This documentary about black loving couples was a positive approach to the trauma of black relationships. More than half black marriages end in divorce, but Nisa's film attempts to increase the longevity of black relationships by depicting couples telling how to do it right, no selfishness, no thyself first. One husband probably said the most profound line in the film, "How can you have a soul mate when you haven't discovered your soul?"
This film, shot in Philadelphia, shows there is hope for black relationships if people know themselves, thus they are capable of knowing their partner. There were young couples and those not so young, one husband was 90 years old and his wife 92. They'd been married fifty years.
Black Love Lives is a powerful tool in repairing our traumatized and abusive relationships. It is not about trauma or abuse, but the positive things we must do to make relationships successful.
Marvin X, Nisa Ra's former husband and father of their daughter Muhammida el Muhajir, said even when couples separate and divorce, they must learn to be civil and not spread any negativity on the children, i.e. Black Love must Live even when the couples separate. The parents must show love so the children can know love.
A conference based on the film will take place at the University of Penn. Before leaving the Bay Area, Nisa Ra will interview Dr. Nathan Hare and Dr. Julia Hare, a couple that long championed the notion Black Love Lives!
--Marvin X
8/27/12
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