Factions in Miss America split over leadership, direction
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey -— Former Miss America winners and state pageant officials are split over the leadership and direction of the organization, which was rocked by a 2017 email
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey -— Former Miss America winners and state pageant officials are split over the leadership and direction of the organization, which was rocked by a 2017 email
When the Miss America pageant started in 1921, having young women parade around in bathing suits seemed like a great way to get tourists to come to the Atlantic City Boardwalk after Labor Day.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The top leadership of the Miss America Organization, implicated in an email scandal that targeted past pageant winners for abuse based on their appearance, intellect and sex lives, resigned on Saturday, with the outgoing president apologizing to a winner whose weight he ridiculed.
Leaders of the Miss America beauty pageant were fending off calls for their mass resignation after leaked internal emails showed misogynistic, fat-and slut-shaming language, US media reported Friday.
“Trailblazing” doesn’t typically come to mind when describing beauty pageants. But that’s how one contestant in this weekend’s Miss America pageant is being characterized.
Miss Georgia Betty Cantrell is the new Miss America, but her crowning moment was nearly overshadowed by a three-decade old pageant scandal, and a still-raw debate over whether the NFL’s reigning champions cheated on their way to a Super Bowl victory.
Miss New York Kira Kazantsev was crowned the new Miss America late Sunday, the third straight victory for the Empire State in the national beauty pageant.
Miss America is asking a Pennsylvania school district to reconsider the punishment of a high school senior who asked her to be his prom date during the question-and-answer portion of an assembly.
The first Indian-American winner of the quintessential American beauty pageant had predicted that times were changing even before her victory.
For the first time America’s top beauty queen is a woman of Indian origin, and she is playing down racist tweets that say she looks like an Arab terrorist.
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