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Mbathio Beye Crowned First Miss Black France Amidst Protest

May 1 | Posted by Popular Critic
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Mbathio Beye, a 21-year-old Senegalese marketing student beauty, was crowned as the first Miss Black France in Paris on Saturday though her win has been blemished by members of the New France movement who deemed the event unnecessary and inadvertently racist. “Why should Asians and Africans come here and have more rights than us?” one demonstrator told Radio France Internationale. “This... Read more

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