The first night of preliminaries in the revamped, swimsuit-less Miss America competition was held Wednesday, with contestants in Atlantic City, N.J., saying the 98-year tradition was "behind us." ...

A separate competition, Miss America, is ending its swimsuit competition. Shortly after Miss America made headlines with a bombshell announcement that it's scrapping its swimsuit competition, the ...

Kazantsev is an advocate, speaker, and event host who served as Miss America 2015. By taking away the swimsuit competition, Miss America is confirming to the world that there is no correlation between ...

Miss America is aiming to more progressive with this week's announcement that it will drop the swimsuit portion of the competition and will not judge contestants on their looks. The swimsuit ...

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 ...

Shortly after winning the Miss America swimsuit competition—and making the top 10 in the pageant overall—I was signed by my first television agent, who was a senior partner at one of the best agencies ...

At a private retreat in January, more than four dozen Miss America winners came together to discuss a question looming over the pageant’s future: Should the swimsuit contest be scrapped? The Miss ...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.-- The first woman to win the Miss America crown without having to don a swimsuit says she's glad she didn't have to. Nia Imani Franklin, who won the title Sunday night in Atlantic ...

"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 ...

Miss Fort Worth Shannon Sanderford competed in the swimsuit portion of the 2015 Miss Texas Scholarship Pageant at the Charles W. Eisemann Center for Performing Arts in Richardson. File Photo / Rex C.

The Miss America Organization (MAO) has issued an apology after a quote included in its recent scholarship announcement sparked backlash. On Monday, organizers for the pageant — which has rebranded ...