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Danielle Hazel, theGrio.com
September 17, 2024
The pageants' requirements deny and exclude mothers from an “important business and cultural opportunity,” stated attorney Gloria Allred.
Jude Maboné, Miss District of Columbia, Miss DC, Miss America, Black beauty pageant queen, heart disease survivor, heart health, theGrio.com
March 1, 2024
Jude Maboné discusses her journey, the importance of Black women taking their heart health seriously, and her plan to make…
March 23, 2022
For the first time in the pageant’s history, a 23-year-old Black woman has been named Miss Milwaukee on Saturday.
July 3, 2021
At last year’s show, Williams said her musical selections expressed the angst that Black women, especially mothers, were feeling.
New York City Ballet 2018 Spring Gala
February 21, 2021
Vanessa Williams disclosed that her Miss America win was met with an all-encompassing backlash from both the white and Black…
GOP Convention Continues in NYC
February 16, 2021
Former Miss America Erika Harold says that she's ashamed of the Republican party for failing to convict Trump after the…
December 12, 2019
The world acknowleded a new standard of beauty as several Black beauty queens from across the globe represented at the…
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
Miss America NFL thegrio.com AP
September 7, 2018
A question about the propriety of NFL players kneeling in protest during the National Anthem helped select one of Thursday's…
September 14, 2015
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — She wore the crown — briefly — 32 years ago, but Vanessa Williams got her…
September 9, 2015
The 'Miss America' organization and ABC announced that they would be bringing Vanessa Williams back to the Miss America pageant…
September 29, 2014
After year-long relationship with her boyfriend Jim Skrip, Vanessa Williams, 50, has some exciting news. She’s getting married — again. In an
January 31, 2014
theGRIO'S 100 - The 2003 Miss America is now running for a U.S. House seat in Illinois. If Harold won,…
September 20, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - On Wednesday, Davuluri commiserated with Williams backstage at her Broadway play 'A Trip to Bountiful'...
September 17, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Thirty years ago today, Vanessa Williams was crowned Miss America, making her the first African-American to win…
September 16, 2013
TODAY - The crowning of the latest Miss America has stirred up the ugly side of social media...
June 21, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - A downstate Illinois GOP Republican chairman who recently came under fire for making racially charged comments about…
June 5, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Former Miss America winner Erika Harold began her campaign for Congress in Illinois’ 13th District, on Tuesday...
November 13, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Roc Nation rapper and Jay-Z protégé J.Cole is back in the studio and has dropped some new…
April 21, 2010
It took Caressa Cameron four tries to become Miss Virginia, but once she nailed the state title last year, it's…