Listen, navigating the world of dating apps is no easy feat. Especially considering just how many of them exist and how long it may take to sift through all the profiles. Receiving messages that are totally inappropriate because of your skin color. So much ugh.

Instead of characters to explain who you are, Meld shares your current job title from LinkedIn. Though the platform uses your Facebook and LinkedIn info, it never shares your activity with those platforms, so discretion is maintained. Other data revealed that, overall, Black men and Black women got the lowest response rates for their respective genders. The Meld mission is to bring these disparate groups of Black professionals onto a single platform for social and romantic discovery. On one hand, the first mobile dating app for the African Diaspora is both clever and timely. Once popular online platforms like BlackPlanet are past their peak, so where do Black people go to connect with other Blacks outside of their immediate social networks?

For many black women, it can be a struggle to find the perfect person to spend the rest of your life with. Luckily, there are many dating apps out there that cater to black women looking for love. Here we list some of the best.

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