Robertha Budy heard the insult when she was a little girl, and now, even at Georgia State University in Atlanta, she still hears it. "You're Liberian? Isn't that in Africa? You don't look like it. You ...
Founder Lisa Ruffin proudly announced Paityn McElhannon as the 2025 Queen and Lauren Lawson as the Princess at the packed Barnsdall Art Park event. Former winner Zaya Campbell, daughter of Grammy ...
LOS ANGELES, April 22 (UPI) -- A 22-year-old California woman with a Chinese mother and African American father became a first at the Miss Los Angeles Chinatown Pageant. Angela Chao Roberson, who came ...
Celebrities always support Actress Lisa Ruffin’s Annual Little Miss African American Scholarship Pageant and this year it continues. *Celebrities always support Actress Lisa Ruffin’s Annual Little ...
In 1970, Velma Stokley-Flournoy created the Miss Black Sacramento pageant. “I saw a pageant on television and there weren’t any blacks involved,” she explains. And thirty-eight years later, the ...
Women and girls strut glitzy and glamorous ball gowns Saturday up and down the runway at the Spirit of the Texas African American Museum Beauty Pageant. “The intent of our Spirit of TAAM Pageant is to ...