Black girls don't have to choose between celebration and liberation. Both are the strategy. Both are the mission. Both are coming to a city near you.
Joy is our strategy. Right now, joy is also our intervention.
"Joy is not a luxury. Joy is strategy."
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!
Eight States. Nine Cities. One Declaration — You belong here.
From hands-on STEM activities to art, music, and creative expression to conversations about money, health, and your future. Every zone is designed to spark something in you.
100% of past tour participants said they felt free to be fully themselves. That kind of space is rare. We protect it.
86% of participants reported experiencing joy. 83% said they had fun. Because healing and learning don't have to be serious all the time.
88% of attendees left with a more positive image of Black girls and women, including themselves. That's not a side effect. That's the mission.
Founded in 2017, Southern Black Girls channels philanthropic resources to organizations centering Black girls and women across 13 Southern states.
The Joy & Justice Tour touches down in communities across the South, bringing together Black girls, women, femme identifying youth, and families for a full day of celebration, resources, and the kind of community that sustains a movement.
"If you change the life of a Black girl, you change the world."
Black women and girls in the South are facing converging crises. The Joy & Justice Tour is the response: resources, community, and the refusal to be defined by what we're surviving.
In April 2026, the Supreme Court's ruling in Louisiana v. Callais further weakened Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The political power Black women in the South built across generations is under direct pressure, with disproportionate impact across the very states this tour calls home.
"Joy is not a luxury. Joy is strategy. And right now, joy is how we protect each other."
For Black girls and women, claiming joy is an act of defiance. To insist on being celebrated, to take up space in delight, is a refusal of systems that have historically defined Black women by suffering and sacrifice.
Movements that operate purely from grief and urgency burn people out. Rest, celebration, and community replenish the people doing the work. Joy is not a distraction from the mission. It is the fuel.
Joy without justice is temporary. Justice without joy is unsustainable. Together, they are the foundation of everything Southern Black Girls was built to do, and everything the tour is designed to be.
The Joy & Justice Tour is powered by community. Volunteer at a tour stop, or bring your business, organization, college, or Divine Nine chapter as a community resource vendor. Full details and sign-up forms are on our Get Involved page.
Our team is here to help, whether you're planning to attend, partner with us, or need press information.
Interested in sponsoring the Joy & Justice Tour or partnering with Southern Black Girls and Women's Consortium? We'd love to hear from you.
