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      Officially apologized to Vanessa Williams

      • During Sunday night’s televised pageant, the Miss America organization officially apologized to Vanessa Williams – who was the first black woman ever to win the crown, in 1983, only to resign just months later due to a scandal about nude photographs for which she’d posed.
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