SENTINEL EXCLUSIVE: Three Young Black Queens Make Pageant History
May 9, 2019
The LA Sentinel sits down with each of the 2019 title holders For nearly 100 years, young girls excited by the glamour and beauty of the Miss America and Miss USA competition have watched annually as women, mostly White, take the stage to compete for scholarship prizes and the title of pageant queen. When Cheslie Kryst won the Miss USA title last week, she knew it was monumental but she didn’t think the moment would go down in American pageant history. “I didn’t realize all of us were Black until a lot of people started posting on social