Miss America

The songstress will serve as a judge for 2017’s Miss America pageant.

It’s been almost three months since Deshauna Barber won the 2016 Miss America pageant, but her extremely emotional crowning ceremony just got even more dramatic. https://www.instagram.com/p/BJax00MAiZz/?taken-by=deshaunabarber Monday afternoon, Barber revealed to her 60,000 Instagram followers that her teary-eyed acceptance of the Miss USA crown was much deeper than the audience knew at the time. https://www.instagram.com/p/BGUclQFvhpn/?taken-by=deshaunabarber Of course, Barber was ecstatic to be […]

History is repeating itself with the Miss America pageant. Singer, actress, and the first African-American Miss America, Vanessa Williams returned to the pageant that put her on the map. Williams resigned her crown in 1984 after nude photos she had taken in college surfaced during her reign.  Williams has since had a successful pop, Broadway and acting […]

Vanessa Williams returns to the Miss America pageant as the head judge after being forced to step away from her crown in 1984.

Miss America, Nina Davuluri, was asked out to the school prom during a question-and-answer portion of an assembly on Thursday. The Central York High School administrators didn’t find it to cute and gave the 18-year-old student, Patrick Farves, a three-day-in-school suspension. Miss America is asking the Pennsylvania school district to reconsider the punishment. School officials […]

A new black Miss America was crowned at Las Vegas’ Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on Jan. 30 and her name is Caressa Cameron.

22-year-old Caressa Cameron of Fredericksburg, Virginia has become the seventh Black woman in history to be named Miss America.