Fort Lauderdale

MEDIA ADVISORY — FORT LAUDERDALE
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 Fort Lauderdale Area 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 Friday, July 10

SELMA, AL — Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium’s Joy & Justice Tour touches down in the Fort Lauderdale area on Friday, July 10, with a free festival-style community event at Eagles’ Nest Charter Academy in Lauderhill. 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!

Friday, July 10, 2026

8:00am – Joy & Justice Walk with GirlTrek
AC Hotel Ft. Lauderdale Beach, 3029 Alhambra St., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304

11:00 a.m. ET – Joy & Justice Tour Kickoff
Eagles’ Nest Charter Academy, 3698 NW 15th St, Lauderhill, FL 33311

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 Fort Lauderdale area stop expands that declaration into South Florida’s vibrant Black community and its Caribbean diaspora.

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:

  • 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/fortlauderdale.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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