Richmond, VA

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

Virginia’s Top Black Women Leaders Welcome the Joy & Justice Tour to the Virginia Capitol for Southern Black Girls Day

Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium brings free tour celebration of Black girls and women on Friday, August 21

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. 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. You belong here!

Friday, August 21, 2026
Virginia Capitol, 1000 Bank Street, Richmond, VA 23219

  • 9:00am – Breakfast with Elected Officials
  • 10:30am – Joy & Justice Tour Kickoff
  • Capitol Tours from 11-2

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. Richmond carries its own resonance for this declaration: Southern Black Girls Day gathers Black girls and women inside the halls of the Virginia Capitol, welcomed by Black women leading at the highest levels of the Commonwealth, in a city 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 Virginia grantee partners include:

  • Pretty Purposed (Chesterfield) — small-group Girl Circles delivering mentoring and social-emotional learning to more than 200 girls annually across 20+ schools and community sites in Central and Southside Virginia
  • MH Boxes (Chester) — a youth-founded nonprofit launched through a #BlackGirlJoyChallenge grant that has delivered more than 2,600 mental health care packages to Black girls across Virginia and beyond
  • Transformative Changes (Richmond area) — trauma-informed healing circles and healing justice programming centering Black girls as future leaders of change
  • Black Girl On Campus Foundation (Virginia Beach) — focused mentoring for young women of color that promotes personal development and a strong sense of hope

Register for Louisville – www.southernblackgirls.org/joytour/richmond.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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