Nikole Churchill

The "Homecoming Queen" at a traditionally black US university has sent a letter to President Barack Obama, complaining that her win had been questioned on campus because she is white. But after her letter riled students at Hampton University in Virginia, beauty pageant winner Nikole Churchill issued a public apology, saying she had taken "the comments of a few and blew them out of all proportion." Churchill, a tall, raven-haired woman who, like Obama, grew up in Hawaii, wrote to the president after winning her university's beauty pageant last week. "It would be much easier to say that possibly some were not accepting of ... Read Full Story

Nikole Churchill won the Miss HU pageant (think Homecoming Queen), but not everyone was too thrilled about it on the Hampton University campus in Virginia. The 22-year-old senior is the predominantly black college's first non-black winner, and the campus is divided over her crowning. Nikole Churchill won the Ms. HU contest. (emqtv.com) Some people claim her win shouldn't have happened because of her race, and she's not a student on the main campus, while others are excited about the change. Still, the campus tension led Churchill to write a letter to President Obama , asking him to come to the school to talk about ... Read Full Story

Last month, a mixed-race college student won the beauty pageant at a traditionally Black university in Virginia. But it wasn’t exactly the student’s choice. Hampton University’s student body didn’t get to vote for their tall, fair-skinned queen. A five-judge panel did and what was their real mission? To get put her on track to become Miss Virginia in 2010. At a place like Hampton University, which is one of 80 traditional Black colleges in the country, you would think or hope that the racialized standard of beauty—white skin, so-called good hair— would be different from what we see on TV and the covers of ... Read Full Story

As if President Obama has nothing to worry about, Nikole Churchill, the "Homecoming Queen" at Hampton University, a traditionally black university, sent the president a letter complaining that her win had been questioned on campus because she is white. Needless to say, her letter riled students at the university prompting her to issue a public apology, saying she had taken "the comments of a few and blew them out of all proportion." Like President Obama, Churchill grew up in Hawaii and wrote to him after winning the university's beauty pageant last week. "It would be much easier to say that possibly some were not accepting of ... Read Full Story

Hmmmmmmmm. So I'm listenin to D.L. Hughley's HORRIBLE morning show on the radio this mornin (er'other show was on commercial) and they were talking about the Miss Hampton University controversy. And I came in on the part where D.L. is saying have you seen the picture of the winner and the other contestants? Of course she won! I don't even know how you get in a beauty contest when you look like Plaxico Burress . If I may, I'd just like to say that D.L. Hughley is the most non-funny, ignorant negroid and his show fuckin sucks. Anyhoooo.....Seems this years newly crowned Miss Hampton ... Read Full Story