Louisville

MEDIA ADVISORY — Louisville, KY
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 Louisville, KY 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, August 8

SELMA, AL — 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. 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, Education & HBCU, Sports, and Nutrition. This is where joy and justice live together, because joy is strategy. You belong here!

Saturday, August 8, 2026

8:00am – Joy & Justice Walk with GirlTrek
Track @ Norton Healthcare Sports and Learning Center, 3029 W. Muhammad Ali Blvd, Louisville, KY 40212

11:00am – Joy & Justice Tour Kickoff
Norton Healthcare Sports and Learning Center, 3029 W. Muhammad Ali Blvd, Louisville, KY 40212

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. 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, local 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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