“Black love is a form of resistance.”The phrase became a mantra for Tristan St. John Thompson, who is an academic and culture dean at Dream Charter High School in the South Bronx. He frequently talks about “places of resistance” with the students “who look like me and are from where I’m from,” said Mr. Thompson, 31, who was born and raised in the Bronx. “Even education is a form of resistance in a world that is sometimes telling you that you aren’t enough and you aren’t doing enough.”As his relationship with Tyla Jenel Wade, 29, developed, he began seeing their love, too, as a form of resistance. “We are going to do whatever we have to in order to make sure that we support each other and the people around us,” Mr. Thompson said.

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