Dawn Moss continues her work behind the scene
On Monday, August 4, a celebrity panel of judges determined the winner of the “2009 Miss Black USA” crown, Miss Black Pennsylvania, Shayna Rudd. Mississippian Alicia Lewis came in 2nd. The winner also received an academic scholarship along with a host of other prizes.
Dawn Moss, the 1996 Miss Black USA winner, a International Fashion guru,a Managing Partner for Carolina Kitchen restaurants and spokesmodel for 4Life research is the Executive Producer of the pageant. Her job she said “is to oversee the entire production, make sure everyone does what they are suppose to do, up until the queen is crowned.”
College student Alicia Lewis takes 2nd place
The Miss Black USA Pageant has come home, to Prince George’s County. After years of having the pageant bounce around the globe in places as far away as west Africa as well as big-name cities like Las Vegas, the Miss Black USA pageant is making its first appearance in Prince George’s County, where it was founded. Throughout the last week, some 25 contestants from across the U.S. settled into the Aloft Hotel in the National Harbor development in Oxon Hill. “I couldn’t imagine being anywhere else than in Prince George’s County,” said Karen Arrington of Upper Marlboro, who founded the pageant, which entered its 22nd year.
Juneteenth, the holiday observed by some states that celebrates the
freeing of Texas slaves after the Civil War, will become a national
holiday this year if the Rev. Ronald V. Myers Sr. is successful in his
crusade.
Myers, a medical doctor and national chairman of the
Juneteenth Holiday Campaign, visited Lubbock’s Patterson Library on
June 5th, to promote the national observance of the holiday and to
donate a book about Juneteenth to the library.
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Former Pike County resident Jessica Tolliver (2nd from the left), the daughter of Treva Fuller, waits with other students for the commencement program to begin.
(Photo: Matt Bush)
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Jessica Tolliver moved with her family to Hattiesburg from the country near Progress, outside of Magnolia, Mississippi. Leaving the South Pike school district, she joined with other students who parents wanted them to have a good education with a Christian foundation.
Part of the annual Azalea Festival
On Tuesday, March 31, the McComb Community Relations and Tourism Bureau sponsored “A Little Blues, Bo, and Barbeque” as part of the annual Azalea Festival.
Visitors enjoy the free BBQ beef, sausage dogs, and other items catered buy C&D Smokehouse.
Bo Diddley memorabilia was on display in the Pike County Chamber of Commerce Pike Room on Railroad Boulevard.
Madison native talks about her pageant experience
Last summer I had the privilege of being an associate producer of the Miss Black USA Beauty Pageant in Las Vegas. It was a very rewarding experience. So when my good friend, executive producer, Dawn Moss called I didn’t’ hesitate to fly to Washington D.C. The site of this year’s pageant.
This year I was just an observer but Mississippi received a blessing with one of our own, Ms Alicia Lewis from Madison, MS who won 1st runner up. I interviewed her this week and the following is my interview with Ms Mississippi.
Naomi Sims was the first Black SuperModel
Naomi Sims, considered by many to be the first black supermodel, died over the past weekend following a long battle with cancer, according to her son, Bob Findlay. She was 61.
The Mississippi native was born on March 30, 1949, in Oxford, MS, grew up a foster child in Pittsburgh and broke into the modeling business in the mid-sixties after moving to New York City. At 5’10”, with dark skin, Sims had not been considered particularly attractive as a teenager.
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Wyatt Emmerich
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Wyatt Emmerich Hates to Talk Race, But If He Has To …
Lots of
folks are talking about Wyatt Emmerich’s endorsement of Crisler in the
Northside Sun this week in which he says he hates to talk about race.
BUT:
The Senate was recessed on Wednesday, April 1, in anticipation of being called back in May when we and the House of Representatives expect to have more details on how Federal Stimulus money can be used to prepare the state's 2010 budget.
Lt. Governor Bryant has said that when Senators return, he expected a brief stay, incurring none of the expenses associated with a Special Session. However, the Lt. Governor and the Speaker of the House could call back the Senate before May if they deemed it necessary.
Among the issues the Senate could debate upon returning are a cigarette tax increase to offset the cost of other taxes, especially those associated with car tags, which could potentially rise more than 150 percent. The Senate has proposed a 62 cents per pack increase. This would be separate from the 64 cents federal tax that was started on April 1.
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JACKSON (AP) — Mississippi Department of Public Safety Commissioner
Steve Simpson says the black troopers who are alleging discrimination
won’t meet with agency officials.
And he said the group hasn’t
provided any documentation to support their claims.
“Right now, it’s just yelling from the rooftops,” said Simpson, who met Thursday with a legislative committee that investigates state offices.
