The Frederick Douglass Academy (FDA) in Harlem, New York, was abuzz with excitement as students gathered for a momentous ...
Some events were more important, politically and socially, than others. The Miss Black America contest defied the exclusion of African American women from the Miss America pageant. The crowning of ...
NEW YORK – Vanessa Williams continues to conquer new frontiers. Williams became the first Black Miss America at the pageant in 1984. She then navigated a media controversy surrounding ...
The first African Americans to appear in the Miss America Pageant came onstage as 'slaves' for a musical number in 1923. It was not until 1970 that a black woman, Iowa's Cheryl Brown ...
For the first time, both the winners of Miss Georgia and Miss Georgia's Teen are Black women. Ludwidg "Lulu" Louizaire and ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The anticipated Miss Special Staten Island and Miss Black Staten Island pageants are set to take place this weekend, Saturday, September 28, at Port Richmond High School.