Cheslie Kryst, Kaleigh Garris and Nia Franklin prove that #BlackGirlMagic is here to stay!

Big changes are coming to the Miss America competition. Gretchen Carlson, chairman of the Miss America Organization’s Board of Trustees, announced the changes on Good Morning America Tuesday — emphasizing that “it’s no longer a pageant, it’s a competition.” “We will no longer judge our candidates on their outward physical appearance,” she said. “That’s huge.” […]

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

*Thirty-two years after she was force to give up her Miss America crown over naked photos, Vanessa Williams is returning to the pageant stage on Sunday…this time, as a judge. Williams, the first African-American Miss America, won the title in 1984 but resigned after Penthouse magazine published sexually explicit photographs of her taken several years […]

Vanessa Williams as Olivia Dunn in “666 Park Avenue”   *Vanessa Williams traced her history through one of those mail in order DNA test kits and found some interesting results. “I’ve got blue eyes, my brother also has light eyes, and everyone says, ‘Well, what are you? You’re mixed with something. What is it?’” Williams told […]

Nina Davuluri may have won the title of Miss America, but she didn’t immediately win the hearts of America. The critical powerhouse known as Twitter…

Hold on to your tiara’s y’all! This girl is like the real life version of Sandra Bullock’s character from the movie “Miss Congeniality.” The notoriously conservative Miss America pageant is in full swing with preliminary competitions last week and televised pageant on ABC this past Sunday (Sept 15). But the squeaky-clean pageant is in a state of shock […]

  Miss New York Nina Davuluri Gets the Tiara On Top of Her   (CNN) — She’s the second consecutive New York beauty queen to take the Miss America title, but she’s the first Indian-American to wear the national crown — er, tiara — atop her perfectly coiffed head. “I was the first Indian Miss […]

I am delighted to bring you some of the highlights from Vanessa Williams being  honored with one of the the 2010 Muse Awards, from New York Women In Film And Television,  which took place on December 8th at the New York Hilton. The gala luncheon is the highlight of the holiday season in the entertainment […]

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