JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - A historical triumph for Miss Mississippi Emmie Perkins astatine the Miss America contention connected the Miss America signifier Monday night.
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Miss Mississippi 2022 won the wide Social Impact grant astatine the Miss America Competition. Perkins received the grant Wednesday morning. She is the archetypal Miss Mississippi to person this award.
Perkins made her Social Impact Statement connected signifier Monday. She was named a finalist past week on with Miss Kentucky and Miss Alabama.
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Perkins says Music is Medicine has been her absorption to assistance heal and unite.
“As a musician, and arsenic idiosyncratic who has a societal interaction connected music, Music is Medicine, I’m truthful arrogant of the information that I travel from America’s birthplace of music, a spot of culture, our life,” Perkins said. “But it genuinely is the radical that I ever spell backmost to. The radical of Mississippi are hospitable, they’re kind, supportive, the emotion the support, the proposal that I’ve gotten from radical crossed our large state.”
Miss Mississippi besides wins a $10,000 scholarship. She competed successful the Miss America Talent Preliminary Tuesday nighttime singing “Rise Up”. The caller Miss America volition beryllium crowned Thursday night.
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