Black woman crowned Miss Universe Great Britain for the first time

The 25-year-old beauty queen is from Anguilla.

Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers made history this weekend at the Miss Universe Great Britain pageant.

Saturday, Kentish-Rogers, became the first Black woman to be crowned Miss Universe Great Britain since the pageant’s inception in 1952.

The 25-year-old beauty queen is from Anguilla, a British territory, and will represent both Anguilla and the United Kingdom at the international Miss Universe competition, which will take place in the Philippines this December.

“It’s really humbling and I think it’s also a privilege for me to become the first Black woman who is crowned Miss Universe Great Britain,” she told BuzzFeed News.

Aside from being the land of the world’s most insatiable colonizers, the UK has also had a long history of being color struck, with lighter complexioned/mixed race Black women being …

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