Maddie Oliphant was recently crowned the first African-American Miss Mississippi Teen USA 2025. The Hickory native is now prepared to spread her community service platform, Maddie’s Little Library, ...

Hickory native and East Central Community College student Maddie Oliphant was crowned Miss Mississippi Teen USA 2025 over a ...

The Miss Black America contest defied the exclusion of African American women from the Miss America pageant. The crowning of the National Doughnut Queen held less social significance. But ...

"If the United States is going to call themselves the land of opportunity and a place where you can achieve the American dream … Miss USA should be able to represent all of them," she added.

Lencola Sullivan, Miss Arkansas 1980, was the first African American to make it to the top five. In 1984 Vanessa Williams became the first black Miss America, beginning the year as one of the best ...