beauty pageants
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Cheslie Kryst’s Family to Hold Vigil In Honor of Her 31st Birthday
‘We are already experiencing a remarkable outpouring of love and support for our Cheslie, for which we are tremendously grateful,’ Kryst’s family said.
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Mom of Former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst Speaks Out for the First Time Since Her Daughter’s Passing
Mother of the accomplished attorney and beauty queen says her daughter was deeply depressed.
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In Another Possible Black Pageant Queen Streak, Breanna Myles Is Crowned Miss Teen USA
The Floridian captured the crown on Saturday night, and was soon after joined in Black excellence by Miss USA Elle Smith.
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Once Again, a Black Woman Has Been Crowned Miss USA
Kentucky journalist Elle Smith will be the third consecutive Black American queen to compete for Miss Universe—only 6 months after her first pageant.
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The Timeless Freedom of Miss Juneteenth
What does freedom look like? When you’re a black person in America living in a post-civil rights era world, currently suffocating from the smoke in a racist climate as the words “I Can’t Breathe” echo in the sky, the answer to that question is…complicated, to say the very least. June 19, 2020 marks 155 years…
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Black Girl Magic Wins Again! South Africa’s Zozibini Tunzi Is Miss Universe 2019
“Tonight a door was opened and I could not be more grateful to have been the one to have walked through it,” Miss Universe 2019, Zozibini Tunzi, told the media after her triumphant win on Sunday night (h/t BBC News). “May every little girl who witnessed this moment forever believe in the power of her…
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Post-Trump, Miss Universe Welcomed Its 1st Openly Transgender Contestant in 2018
She didn’t take home the crown, but Spain’s Angela Ponce made history this year as the first openly transgender woman to compete in the Miss Universe pageant on Dec. 16 in Bangkok, Thailand. It was a relatively quiet, but strikingly progressive inclusion in an industry long lambasted for its regressive politics and representations—and even more…
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Make Mrs. America Great Again? Pageant Owner Accused of Racial Slurs and Bias
Well, we guess Mrs. America CEO and co-founder David Marmel won’t be voted Mr. Congeniality anytime soon. As the Washington Post reports, four contestants in this year’s pageant—three African American, one white American —are calling for an apology from Marmel, alleging he used racial slurs and stereotypes during a pre-competition event in Las Vegas in…
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This Is (Miss) America: New Yorker Nia Franklin Takes the Crown in Revamped Beauty Pageant
Here she is, Miss America 2.0. On Sunday night, Miss New York, Nia Imani Franklin, became the first woman to wear the crown of Miss America after the competition underwent some much-needed (and much-publicized) changes, including cutting its controversial swimsuit competition. As USA Today reports, Franklin wowed the judges—and audiences watching the pageant live in…