Eatonville

MEDIA ADVISORY — Eatonville, FL
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Candice M. Dixon, Communications Manager
Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium
candice@southernblackgirls.org | (334) 394-3236

Joy & Justice Tour Touches Down in the Eatonville, FL with Free Community Festival

Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium brings festival-style programming, resources, and celebration to Black girls, women, and femme identifying communities on Saturday, July 11

SELMA, AL — Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium’s Joy & Justice Tour touches down in the Eatonville area on Saturday, July 11, with a free festival-style community event. Expect music, food trucks, and a day built for fun, alongside community resources, and a photo booth experience sponsored by Dove. Each stop also features nine activation zones designed to uplift, inform, and celebrate Black girls and women in their fullness: Arts & Culture, Beauty, Economic Empowerment, Health & Wellness, STEM, Advocacy & Justice, Sports, and Nutrition. This is where joy and justice live together, because joy is strategy. You belong here!

Saturday, July 11, 2026

8:00am – Joy & Justice Walk with GirlTrek
Thomas Leadership Academy, 107 Wymore Rd, Maitland, FL 32751

9:00am – Joy & Justice Tour Kickoff
Hungerford Elementary School, 230 S College Ave Eatonville, FL 32751

Our why is simple: Black women and girls in the South are facing converging crises, from gender-based violence and a Black maternal health emergency to the erosion of health care access and the systemic underfunding of Black women-led organizations. Less than 1% of the South’s $4.8 billion in philanthropic investments reaches Black women and girls. The Joy & Justice Tour is the response: resources, community, and the refusal to be defined by what Black women and girls are surviving. As Executive Director Chanceé Lundy has said, joy is not a luxury; it is strategy, and right now, it is how we protect each other. Joy without justice is temporary. Justice without joy is unsustainable. Eatonville carries particular resonance for this declaration: incorporated in 1887, it is one of the oldest self-governing Black municipalities in the United States and the hometown of author Zora Neale Hurston. The National Trust for Historic Preservation recently named Eatonville among America’s 11 most endangered historic places.

Since 2017, Southern Black Girls has awarded more than $11.4 million to over 250 organizations and provided more than $600,000 in micro-grants to 1,000+ recipients through its #BlackGirlJoyChallenge. Some of our recent, local grantee partners include:

  • Sisters Empowering Women, Inc. (Tampa) — mental health, self-advocacy, and life-skills support for vulnerable students

  • Climate & Me Liberty City LLC (Miami) — youth-led environmental education and climate justice advocacy in Liberty City
  • The Beauty Initiative (Fort Lauderdale) — hygiene access and period equity
  • Girls in Christ, Inc. (Hollywood) — faith-based leadership development for girls ages 10 to 18
  • Promote Her, Period. (Miramar) — menstrual equity, education, and product access
  • Survivors HOPE (Miramar) — survivor-led mentorship and healing-centered support for young women impacted by gender-based violence

Register for Fort Lauderdale – www.southernblackgirls.org/joytour/eatonville.html
Learn more about the Joy & Justice Tour – www.southernblackgirls.org/joytour
For general tour inquiries: joytour@southernblackgirls.org

ABOUT SOUTHERN BLACK GIRLS AND WOMEN’S CONSORTIUM
Founded in 2017 by LaTosha Brown, Felecia Lucky, Alice Eason Jenkins, and Margo Miller, Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium channels philanthropic resources to Black girls, women, and femme identifying communities across 13 Southern states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. Learn more at southernblackgirls.org.

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