Eligibility

$150 Application Fee for Online Preliminary Competition

Must be natural born female.
Ages 20-35
Single, Married, Divorced, Widowed.
Contestants may have children.
Must consider yourself to be of the Black American community.
25%, 50%, 100% African American or African lineage who identifies oneself as Black American.

The competition cycle begins with a preliminary online competition to sift through the applicants and find the most ambitious, committed, and disciplined contestants for entry into the Class of 2013 Miss Black United States Program.  Contestants will be required to solicit a number of online votes in order to gain the opportunity to compete in the state competition. Moreover, they must submit an official application and participate in a series of interviews prior to acceptance into the state competition.  Depending on the number of applicants, a select number of top online & interview winners (ranging from 15-50 applicants) will be chosen to compete in their state competition.

State competitions will be held at select regional locations.  Contestants are responsible for paying for their travel, wardrobe, and their non-refundable state competition fee of $996, to which their initial non-refundable application fee of $150 will be applied.  State competition fee covers hotel, production costs, and most meals.  Only 7-8 regional locations will host all 51 state representative competitions (50 States + Washington D.C.)

Unlike most pageants, our state competition is closed. No family members or friends will be there to watch this competition; however, it will be filmed.  This is not a traditional pageant whereby the queen is selected from the pageant alone.  The state delegate selected during this competition weekend must participate in the program for 1 year, compete against herself at the national competition, receive state queen training, and earn her title as a State Queen. If you participate 100% in the program, you will score high enough to be crowned your state title at the national competition.

Why do we structure the program like this? In the majority of pageants, contestants work extremely hard to compete for 1 place in the royal throne.  Unfortunately, more women go home upset than happy.  The Miss Black United States Program mitigates this.  Everyone gains an experience of a lifetime. Everyone walks home celebrating their success and achievements.  Everyone starts their reign at the same time.  We all celebrate together. We are all empowered together as one. This is unity.