By Black PR Wire
(Black PR Wire) Washington, D.C. — The Nationwide Coalition on Black Civic Participation and the Black Girls’s Roundtable will convene a whole lot of Black ladies from throughout the nation and all over the world for the Fifteenth Annual Black Girls’s Roundtable (BWR) Girls of Energy Nationwide Summit, March 11–15, 2026, in Arlington, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., throughout Girls’s Historical past Month.
This yr’s theme, “United We Win: Freedom, Justice, Democracy, Security and Alternative for All,” is a name to collective motion and a transparent message: Black ladies stay among the many most engaged civic leaders within the nation, constructing energy by collective motion, objective, mutual help, and financial mobilization.
The Summit convenes as Black ladies and Black communities navigate historic challenges: rising unemployment following mass layoffs, the rollback of range, fairness, and inclusion (DEI) commitments, and protracted boundaries to entrepreneurship and entry to capital that threaten office stability and long-term financial alternative. On the similar time, renewed assaults on civil rights, voting entry, reproductive freedom and consultant democracy search to weaken the collective energy Black ladies have constructed over generations.
The BWR Girls of Energy Summit has been a key strategic convening for 15 years — assembly the second by organizing, partnership and constructing political and financial energy. This yr’s gathering can even have a good time the methods Black ladies have formed the course of the nation — mobilizing voters, constructing establishments, serving to elect the nation’s first Black president and first Black South Asian vp, supporting the affirmation of the primary Black lady to the U.S. Supreme Court docket, and main transformative change throughout nonprofits, labor, enterprise, religion establishments, and actions for justice.
“For 15 years, the BWR Girls of Energy Summit has been the place Black ladies come collectively not simply to speak, however to prepare, advocate and lead within the nation’s capital. We collect at a second when our communities face historic racial and gender discrimination, financial displacement and coordinated political assaults,” mentioned Melanie L. Campbell, president and CEO of the Nationwide Coalition on Black Civic Participation and convener of the Black Girls’s Roundtable. “However let me be clear: we won’t be erased, deterred, distracted, or divided. We’re constructing energy — and we aren’t performed.”
This yr’s gathering additionally takes place throughout a pivotal midterm election yr, as a fragile financial system compounds the truth that greater than 600,000 Black ladies have been sidelined within the financial system — pushed out of labor or locked out of alternative by structural boundaries, caregiving calls for, wage inequities and coverage selections that fail to mirror their lived realities. But even amid these boundaries, Black ladies affect greater than $1.7 trillion in annual shopper spending, representing one of the crucial highly effective financial forces in america. The Summit will discover how that financial affect will be leveraged strategically — from entrepreneurship and funding to collective buying and mutual help — to strengthen and shield Black communities nationwide.
Over 5 days, coverage briefings, organizing classes and workshops will give attention to addressing these challenges and extra together with: forming help networks to navigate profession transitions and well being challenges, strengthening community-based options, and advancing schooling, civic engagement, and management improvement as important instruments for resilience and success. Attendees can even meet with representatives on Capitol Hill.
Grounded in religion and objective, the Summit will open with a gathering for prayer, centering religious resilience alongside political, financial, and neighborhood management. The Summit will once more function a devoted Black Women and Lady Energy Rising Leaders Monitor, investing within the subsequent technology of leaders and making certain younger Black ladies have the instruments, confidence, and neighborhood to rise and lead.
Bulletins concerning audio system, particular company, media protection and extra particulars can be launched within the coming weeks.
For details about how one can register to attend the Summit as a participant please go to: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bwr-Fifteenth-annual-women-of-power-national-summit-registration-1978305316456?aff=oddtdtcreator
2026 BWR WOMEN OF POWER NATIONAL SUMMIT — DAILY THEMES and HIGHLIGHTS
Wednesday, March 11 | Girls’s World Empowerment Day
A day centered on Black ladies’s management and affect worldwide, that includes: Girls’s World Empowerment Roundtables: Black Girls Leaders Working Throughout the Globe; U.S. International Coverage and the United Nations; The Second Decade of Individuals of African Descent
Thursday, March 12 | Public Coverage Schooling and Name to Motion Day
BWR on Capitol Hill, Gathering for Prayer; Press Convention and name to motion for Freedom, Democracy and Alternative for All; Freedom on the Line City Corridor and Rally; Hearth Chat with Featured Creator; Lady Energy Rising Leaders Opening Session; Therapeutic Circle
Friday, March 13 | It’s All About Group Technique Day
A full day devoted to power-building and collective options, together with: Ribbon Reducing and Opening of the Black Girls Entrepreneurs Market and Mini Expo; Energy-Constructing Technique Periods and Roundtables; Schooling, Financial and Expertise Energy-Constructing Lunch Plenary
Coverage and Organizing Options Sister Circle Breakout Periods; Lady Energy Rising Leaders Periods; Energy Up Morning Inspiration Group Train
Saturday, March 14 | “It’s All About You” — Wholesome, Rich and Clever Empowerment Day
Celebrating Girls’s Historical past Month with: Love You Extra Well being, Wealth and Financial Energy Stroll; Black Youth and Lady Energy Lunch Plenary Session; BWR Sistas Management Awards and Reception
Sunday, March 15 | Religion in Motion Day
Closing the Summit grounded in religion and reflection, that includes; Religion and Inspiration: Religious Hour of Energy; Closing Sistas Circle
The 2026 BWR Girls of Energy Nationwide Summit sponsors embrace: AARP, SEIU, Nike, Gilead Sciences, Nationwide City League, AFGE, NEO Philanthropy/SIF.
Concerning the Black Girls’s Roundtable (BWR)
The Black Girls’s Roundtable (BWR) is the management improvement, mentoring, intergenerational empowerment, and power-building arm of the Nationwide Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP). BWR advances simply and equitable public insurance policies that heart racial, financial, and gender justice, with a give attention to well being and wellness, financial safety and prosperity, schooling and international empowerment as important pillars of success for Black ladies and ladies.
Concerning the Nationwide Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP)
For 50 years, the Nationwide Coalition on Black Civic Participation has been a number one advocate for the rights and empowerment of Black and underserved communities. By way of its packages and initiatives, NCBCP works to broaden civic engagement, strengthen financial alternative, shield voting rights, and guarantee equitable illustration at each degree of presidency. For extra info on the NCBCP go to www.ncbcp.org
