was crowned on Sunday, September 9, with the honor going to Miss New York, Nia Franklin. The re-branding of the competition came following the #MeToo movement and, as a reaction to it, Miss America took many steps to make the competition less about a physical parading of the competitors and more about the causes they support and the ways in which they stand to empower young girls and women all around the country. While the most obvious change might be the modification of the name, calling it a “competition” instead of a “pageant,” another visual pivot for the event is the removal of the well-known swimsuit competition. wasn’t fully free from British colonization until 1966 showed support for this hashtag movement by posting about it on social media,thrusting the crisis onto the public stage So many girls being kidnapped at once seemed like an anomaly, but four years later, more girls have been reported missing following a Boko Haram attack on a town in Nigeria. On February 19, Boko Haram militants stormed the town of Dapchi, and following the attack, parents compiled a list of 110 girls missing from a school in the town,as reported by the Associated Press