Louisville
MEDIA ADVISORY — Louisville, KY
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 Louisville, KY with Free Community Festival
Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium brings festival style programming, resources, and celebration of Black girls, women, and femme identifying communities on Saturday, August 8
Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium’s Joy & Justice Tour touches down in Louisville on Saturday, August 8, with a free festival style community event. Louisville is the fifth of nine stops on a tour crossing eight Southern states this year. Coinciding with Kentucky’s Emancipation Day and Black Business Month, hundreds of families are expected to gather for a day of music, food, a photo booth, a Black business expo, and nine interactive zones covering Arts & Culture, Beauty, Economic Empowerment, Health & Wellness, STEM, Advocacy & Justice, Education, Sports, and Nutrition. This tour is designed to educate, uplift, inform, and celebrate Black girls and women in their fullness.
Saturday, August 8, 2026
Norton Healthcare Sports and Learning Center, 3029 W. Muhammad Ali Blvd, Louisville, KY 40212
8:00am – Joy & Justice Walk with GirlTrek (Track)
11:00am – Joy & Justice Tour Kickoff
Our why is simple: Black women and girls in the South are facing converging crises, from gender-based violence and Black maternal health disparities 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. Louisville carries its own resonance for this declaration: the tour lands in the historic West End on a boulevard bearing the name of hometown hero Muhammad Ali, in a community with a long legacy of Black excellence, activism, and joy.
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 Kentucky grantee partners include:
- 300FOR300 (Louisville) — a safe third space where underserved middle school girls explore identity through art, writing, and community service, with a licensed therapist present at every program hour
- House of WOMB Foundation Inc (Louisville) — a sanctuary of hope, healing, and new beginnings for women and children in crisis
- Building H.E.R., Inc. (Lexington) — mentorship and growth opportunities empowering girls from underrepresented communities
Register for Louisville – www.southernblackgirls.org/joytour/louisville.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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