Empowering or denigrating? The swimsuit competition of the Miss America pageant has long been a major point of contention. It has been five years since the Miss America pageant did away with the ...

Miss America will no longer include a swimsuit competition and will no longer judge contestants based on physical appearance, the organization announced Tuesday on "Good Morning America.""We are no ...

Miss America 2019 swept into Atlantic City, N.J., on Sunday night along with heavy rains and high winds — a fitting combination, considering the storm of controversy brewing in and around the ...

The Miss America Organization says contestants have always been judged on personality, interactions with the crowd and interviews with the judges’ panel. However, the underlying “beauty pageant” tone ...

"We are no longer a pageant. We are a competition." "We will no longer judge our candidates on their outward physical appearance." With those words, Miss America ushered in a whole new era this ...

The Miss America pageant may not have a swimsuit portion anymore, but that’s not the case with Miss Staten Island. Women competing in the 53rd annual show this year were allowed to don their best ...

When the Miss America Organization announced on Tuesday that its namesake contest is eliminating its swimsuit competition, some fans and former contestants alike welcomed the move as a sign of ...

The #MeToo movement has claimed another victim: The Miss America Pageant's “Lifestyle and Fitness” competition, better known as the swimsuit contest. But don't get too excited. It's not the clear-cut ...

The Miss America Organization’s decision to eliminate the swimsuit portion of its famous pageant could be the natural outgrowth of an all-female leadership team, or a reflection of the #MeToo era. To ...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – The Miss America Organization is dropping the swimsuit competition from its nationally televised broadcast, saying it will no longer judge contestants on their appearance. The ...