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This Sunday is the ninth annual Black Marriage Day, and activists in hundreds of communities around the country will gather to “strengthen and promote marriage in the black community,” which has been in sharp decline.

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Alarming data from the Pew Research Center shows that 72 percent of black women giving birth were unmarried — more then any other ethnic group.

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