For decades, beauty pageants have been criticized for objectifying women and for their lack of diversity, but organizers and contestants insist Juneteenth pageants are different.
at the time. New programming focused on issues facing African Americans, including mass incarceration, the pageant founder said.
Arrington compared Black beauty pageants to historically Black colleges and universities, saying they remain important because they give contestants a space to be “unapologetically Black."While it’s affirming to see Black women be rewarded by the traditional pageant system, that may only be temporary because those organizations aren't dedicated to uplifting Black women in the same way, said Ryann Richardson, who was crowned Miss Black America in 2018.
“The reality is that our children are not going to learn about Juneteenth in schools,” Sledge said, citingJuneteenth celebrations arrive amid culture war on race theory, voting, police reform
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