In the name of uplifting and fostering community between Black girls and young women, Megan Thee Stallion’s Pete and Thomas Foundation is teaming up with the Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium (SBGWC) for the first-ever Joy is our Journey Dream Bus Tour.
The multi-city event, described as a “month-long caravan” in the Southern Black Girls press release, kicked off in Atlanta last weekend, and it’ll hit up other cities in Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas over the next few weeks.
The Joy is our Journey Dream Bus Tour will wrap up in Birmingham, Albama, with the 2022 Black Girls Dream Conference, which will go down from Sept. 16-17.
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At each stop, SBGWC will host a “Dream Village” event that’ll feature “interactive workshops and programming centered around mental health and wellness, beauty, arts and culture, entrepreneurship, S.T.E.M. and dream-building,” according to the organization’s announcement.
“I’m really excited to have The Pete and Thomas Foundation partner with the Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium on this special initiative,” Megan Thee Stallion said, according to SBGWC’s press release.
“We both share the same goals — to empower our young Black women, give them the resources to succeed and help them pursue their personal and professional dreams,” the “Pressurelicious” rapper continued.
LaTosha Brown, the founder of SBGWC, also expressed how pumped she is for the tour.
“Megan is the ultimate Southern Black Girl. She is an entertainer, an artist, and a creative, who masterfully balances being a hot girl, a college girl and a businesswoman, and she certainly embodies the unapologetic spirit of our organization,” she noted, according to the announcement.
“Our partnership with The Pete and Thomas Foundation adds fuel to the mission of the Joy is our Journey tour, which is to connect with Black girls and young women throughout the south and create safe spaces to celebrate unlimited, unabashed Black girl joy,” Brown added. “There is so much in store, and we look forward to all the great work we will do together. This just the beginning.”
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The event is free and open to the public, though it’s primarily geared to Black girls and young women aged between 12 and 24. You can learn more through the SBGWC Instagram page.
