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 ...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - 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 Miss America contest is saying bye bye to bikini's. They've scrapped the swimsuit portion of the pageant saying they no longer want to focus on a woman's looks. Christina Denny, the Co-Host of ...

A new behind-the-scenes book, “There She Was,” and a Smithsonian collecting initiative celebrate the pageant’s centennial The author of a penetrating new book, documenting the multi-layered ...

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 ...