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January 5, 2024
History-making pageant queen Cheslie Kryst announced a book before her tragic death in 2022.
May 3, 2022
The mother of Cheslie Kryst will join Jada Pinkett Smith at the red table on Wednesday to talk about her…
April 27, 2022
The family of Cheslie Kryst, the beauty queen who died by suicide earlier this year, announced a public vigil is…
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February 19, 2022
The life of late Miss USA winner Cheslie Kryst was honored publicly on Friday, Feb. 18, weeks after her family…
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February 3, 2022
Following the death of former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst, Black women must talk about their struggles with high-functioning depression.
February 2, 2022
Two days after former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst died, the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner ruled her…
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February 1, 2022
Cheslie Kryst's death hit me hard. It also didn’t help that this was the third suicide in the last week…
January 31, 2022
Kryst, a 30-year-old attorney, "Extra" commentator and former Miss USA, died by suicide Sunday in New York City.
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January 30, 2022
Former Miss USA and Extra correspondent Cheslie Kryst died on Sunday by apparent suicide in New York on Sunday.
December 12, 2019
The world acknowleded a new standard of beauty as several Black beauty queens from across the globe represented at the…
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May 9, 2019
Cheslie Kryst, who was recently crowned Miss USA 2019, has a word to anyone who wants to randomly touch her…
Miss North Carolina Cheslie Kryst, left, gets crowned by last year's winner Sarah Rose Summers, right, after winning the 2019 Miss USA final competition in the Grand Theatre in the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nev., on Thursday, May 2, 2019. Kryst, a 27-year-old lawyer from North Carolina who represents some prison inmates for free, won the 2019 Miss USA title Thursday night in a diverse field that included teachers, nurses and members of the military. (Jason Bean/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP) thegrio.com
May 3, 2019
#BlackGirlMagic reached a new high last night: For the first time in history, three Black women are holding down the