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  • Crowning of first non-black Miss Hampton University divides campus (Should Obama Intervene?)

    10/13/2009 4:24:43 PM PDT · by Arec Barrwin · 38 replies · 2,394+ views
    Newport News Daily Press ^ | October 13, 2009 | Samieh Shalash
    By Samieh Shalash 247-4537 October 13, 2009 HAMPTON - Hampton University crowned its first non-black Miss HU Friday, leading to a division on campus that prompted her to write President Barack Obama. Nikole Churchill, 22, competed against nine black students in the 15th annual Miss HU scholarship pageant. The senior nursing major attends the Virginia Beach campus and is the competition's first non-black winner, according to executive pageant director Shelia J. Maye. Churchill, who is from Hawaii, wrote Obama on Sunday to tell him that her crowning was met with negative comments because of her skin color. She invited him...