5 Best Black Dating Services

By: Mister Bruce

Break Studios Contributing Writer

If you're a professional African American single who is looking for love, you can turn to the 5 best black dating services on the internet to help with your search. There are plenty of websites that cater to African American singles and a few of them are also free.

  1. Soul Singles Featured in publications such as "JET" magazine, Soul Singles sets itself from the pack by offering a safety program which includes vetting all profiles before they go online, as well as community policing of unacceptable behavior. Soul Singles features many additional benefits, such as speed dating, group trips to sporting events and email services. Viewing profiles requires mandatory registration, which is free.

  2. Black Singles Black Singles is one of several dating services under the websites owned and operated by Spark Networks. Finding black singles is as easy as creating a free profile. In addition, you'll find forums and instant messaging services within their community, as well as the ability to create your own photo albums. Black Singles has the advantage of thousands of new members joining every month.

  3. Black Dating For Free Black Dating for Free offers you the opportunity to meet black singles without having to pay. In addition, they use a community watch system to remove scammers and other troublemakers in order to ensure you have a pleasant and productive experience. Black Dating for Free features live chats and a message board for you to get out and mingle.

  4. eHarmony While not specifically a black-only dating service, eHarmony boasts a membership level of five million black singles, making it one of the largest sites on the web for black dating. Signing up with eHarmony gives you the advantage of their patented, advanced system of compatibility matching. In addition, there is the security of knowing that your profile will only be viewed by people who are serious about dating. 

  5. Black Planet Dating With over sixteen million members, Black Planet is the fourth largest and most diverse social networking website online; it is also the largest black dating website on the internet. Most of all, Black Planet Dating is free! You can jump right in and start creating your dating profile or you can mingle with users on the Black Planet forums and find someone special there as well. When you create a profile, you can customize it to play your favorite music, graphics and other features that you would expect to find in a social networking site. 

Posted on: Jul. 19, 2010