While some of us believe we got Indian in our families, most of surely have fools swinging off the trees.

Recently, my brethren here at The Root made a healthy argument for how white women have spent the decade between…

This year has been a groundbreaking one for black women in the world of beauty pageants—a forum that sparks…

Who says women can’t both compete and be close friends? After a momentous and historic win for Miss South Africa…

“Tonight a door was opened and I could not be more grateful to have been the one to have walked through it,” Miss…

Like most science nerds, I’ve always been a little more “geek” than “chic”—unibrow and all. I’m an introverted,…

A pair of ruffed pages; three queens; a member of modeling royalty...as the October and November magazine covers…

The newly-minted Miss Teen USA Kaleigh Garris gives “crown” a new name. When the 18-year-old Connecticut teen won…

When Oprah Winfrey represented her home state of Tennessee in the Miss Black America pageant in 1971, she was part…

Here’s what you call a game-changer: For the first time in its 66-year history, Miss Universe Great Britain—the…

When we heard the announcement last Tuesday that, after years of criticism, the Miss America Organization had…

Utah State University junior Alexis Cooper knew that performing her spoken-word poem for the crowd at the Miss USU…