Charlotte, NC

MEDIA ADVISORY — Charlotte, NC
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 Closes Its Nine-City Run in Charlotte, NC with Free Community Festival

Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium brings the final stop of its Southern tour to Charlotte on Sunday, September 27

Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium’s Joy & Justice Tour touches down in Charlotte, North Carolina on Sunday, September 27, with a free, family-friendly festival-style community event at Ranson Middle School. Charlotte closes out a nine-city, eight-state run that began Juneteenth weekend in Jackson, Mississippi. 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, Nutrition, and Education & HBCU. This is where joy and justice live together, because joy is strategy. You belong here!

Sunday, September 27, 2026
1:00 p.m. – Joy & Justice Tour Charlotte
Ranson Middle School, 5850 Statesville Road, Charlotte, NC 28269

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. The Columbia stop brings that declaration to South Carolina, where Black girls and women have long carried the state’s civic and cultural life while being left out of its funding and its headlines.

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:

  • Black Girls Film Camp (Charlotte), training the next generation of Black girl storytellers from dream to screen to social impact
  • SISTORIES (Charlotte), a Black feminist publishing and production organization archiving and amplifying the stories of Southern Black women and femme identifying communities
  • Durham’s Hope for Kids (Durham), building confidence and leadership skills in Black and Brown girls through its GLOW initiative

Register for Charlotte – www.southernblackgirls.org/joytour/charlotte.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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