Tag: Miss America
-
‘Miss Juneteenth’: Nicole Beharie Loves Awards Recognition and Hopes It Leads to Other ‘Interesting’ Work
Writer-director Channing Godfrey Peoples’ feature directorial debut, “Miss Juneteenth,” follows a former beauty queen, working-class, African American, single mother named Turquoise (Nicole Beharie), who wants nothing more than for her daughter to also wear the crown. Offering an atypical perspective of a beauty pageant, the film unfolds against the background of the Miss Juneteenth procession,…