is to compete with a bare face, no make up, no frills. the pageant introduced and no makeup round in 2019. after receiving highly edited photos of contestants, they said they wanted to see what the women really looked like. but ralph has taken that to the next level nowadays, so many goes to lightning has let me come to admitted to feel and let me whom i was like, she beat on me. ha ha, the committee, him, how align with my then when it will be with did i think in son, samuel morales, her bold move has paid off. she's advanced to the finals of miss england and will compete for the crown in october organizer say she plans to go bare faced again. leah harding al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera and these are the top stories. in libya, at least 23 people have been killed during battles and tripoli between armed groups,

backing rival administrations in the east and the west. the violence follows a build up of forces over the past week, jostling over who should take control of the capitol. malik trina reports these clashes erupted early around 1 30 am local time between these rival militias and things escalated quite quickly. a we saw a of, of forces affiliated with the parallel government, led by foot 2 bayshore, advanced towards the west of tripoli. they also advanced in the south of tripoli, which saw, you know, crashes erupt in and around, around the capitol. unprecedented flooding across pakistan has now killed more than 1000 people since mid june. more than 30000000 people had been affected. zane bus robbie has this update where i'm standing right now is really a snapshot of what's happening all over the province of sin. flood survivors are

fleeing the affected areas and they are setting up camps make shift in the water's edge in places all over the country. on the 1st piece of dry land they can find now just over my shoulder is a small group of tans, a small encampment locally. they're calling this a 10 city. but these are barely tense, they're very, very rudimentary shelters. we spoke to people there who say that they are suffering with skin diseases, illnesses, the hydration, hunger, thirst. they have no villages to go back to because their villages are now simply gone. the european union foreign policy chief says serbia and cost of all have settled a dispute. serbia will abolish the need for people with constable id to have entry documents and turn cost of all has agreed to let serbs travel across the border using their own id cards. chili is going to the polls in

a historic attempt to change its constitution. 50000000 people are eligible to choose between the welfare state and strength and rights, or to keep a constitution adopted under the dictatorship of augusta. finishing julie referenda on al jazeera. oh, oh and me. i grew up with a black queen with she was my mom and she was also miss panama. oh boy. oh, he was 1980 and she was the 1st black woman to ever when did miss panama concept? ah,

40 years later people still remember where they were when she was crowned. because for the very 1st time, the country acknowledged that black is beautiful. and that panama it's black. ah, would 173 pool. my mom own such shipping company. i used to work with her and people would call and ask for the queen. oh, it was so funny and people, you know, sometimes when i would go to pick up a barrel, they were kind of disappointed. to be honest with you. i think some people call just to have some sort of connection with her and her company. and me like i

shipped about with the queen. ah, ah, this is nicole who should there be a shot in panama act? i mean, always seeing those or change and see the represent for, for learn us even gun us last. eat how they but in seattle, eli they suit. daniel. i see kate gloria carmine. this in a lie. he had the again this cornel sheila. ah. so it's the night of the pageant and my mom looks beautiful. she's wearing an amazing

gown and the entire city of cologne, where she's from, everyone's watching the pageant. she has the most amount of points and is clear to everyone that she's winning. but some people were not about to let that happen. a friend of my mom's ended up seated near catalina t 80, a woman who used to own miss panama. he turned to her and said, hey, it looks like the blacker is going to when she responded over my dead body. ah, with lamazzo gold also? is there phone or no say explain. so no saw process thomas in order de la loca leader. pretty fernando north marquee yonder. no, don't we know the us a lot more that i you it. they joel it by the early mikey, your, kimberly had altima. e n may, but i won't go poor k yano starlight to the end or lacking separate who does ego

letter upon thee, nor toil lacking separate wound up. okay, your sale up at a wound tucking me rattle car. it's miss panama. in beauty pageants, contestants always get the questions in advance. that's how it works. that's how has always worked. you get the questions you prepare your answers. very simple. but the night that my mother was competing, something different happened right when it looks like the blockers going to win. right? when the owner of the pageant is having a hissy fit, but a black are winning. the pageant officials the side that that night for some reason, they want to ask an extra question. a thing of your own time about the orders. ether about the lotus, a and signor got a little doogie yearly, so that but i won't back up seal saki left again while i lay the comb,

sang guinea that gave believe it gala view. the disposal say gothic also amana a legal question, a legal question that no one had the chance to study for right. but a question that, you know, maybe maybe a rich girl would probably be smart enough to figure out. i mean, at least that's what i think they were thinking. and if i go, i have young body by him which i took it down inequalities or europe on dinner late . i live go, legal tally. you lot of the cooler pylee dog, quantum at the kwame lady here. no, no, i knew when i lay love you. i know said wicker sour, also mona. i see get annoyed seat ending when i lay. so when i lo, he gave emily who to me my hey emily going back gavia got out on the me. mama, the made leader in fema i for go super yoga gentle. so you're,

you're gonna yeah. so that's what happened. they tried to stop her, but they couldn't. she's unstoppable she one. and i've always known that my mother was miss panama. that you know, she's fabulous. but now that i'm older, i realized that this isn't just a story about my mom. this is a story about my country. why in a country that a 60 percent black, a country that was built by black people? why would anyone doubt that black women could represent the country? why is the panama that he's marketed to the world, the panama? that is reflected back to the panamanians. why is it so light skin? why is it so rich? and most importantly, how did we get here? ah,

and the street exotic night with no so drove in, but on my north i go to him, but i almost at beth the needle bay jessa bagley michael de la mu head barranca. oh so don't know in that are more than 3 methodical directly. northrop concept, although a usa look is no good. i look latha. no. so the only thing that i'm or a supporter, luasa seattle, or la garza a bay most into lady c o constant. their main thing was when i was little, i asked my mom, why can't my hair be blunt? oh, the princess is on t v or blond than yeah,

my mom just said lamar. black people are not blunt. she didn't say anything else, but i understood that people like me were not on tv. i mama mama in one of your finger listening. i don't want the warmer. but america then a girl. i know what i can gasoline, greg. i don't or good afternoon to little forget myself annoyed, i'm in a minute to load on the loft. what amy? only the luck. warren, in mutual minister, represent that up on emma organ. all jane our a saw are 30 people they were yes her there. when i miss, ah, i need gas, o'neill, i'm you sound like a you must have a garage and by living on gina,

he is also your nobody legal are you going us? you know, luca or not sula phenomena. there last are no good. you every person thought it up on my own gum. pushing deadness in elisa he was illegal. welcome, gushing. by did i, gina? i: oh, what does that even mean or not? i turned on by living i, you know, so basically that means that you're out of place and this is what makes me angry. the idea that black people don't belong black people are part of the foundation of panama. at one point africans and their descendants outnumbered to europeans. 5 to one.

it's a it's a leaking in the think they think look a little or chill see in this is bonnie on vivian. i think coldwell don't need to see the lawyer after you got this. clearly so eat the leaking years of the my voted both been stolen, good stuff. i don't live by the 19th century, white fear of black uprisings and a desire to establish regional support. and unity led to a campaign of presenting a non black image of panama to the world. i give it to see mom and dad to send them over to scandal advice. average cindy, in a sense, either we have a low game mental that the f wants the info to find. i mean, if you got one new 2010 was the 1st census since the forty's to ask individuals if they consider themselves black. but the pen and senses is conducted

by staff who canvass, door to door and many effort. panamanians claim that they were never asked the question on didn't buy global bond on it and they don't have an uncle gloria can among you this nozzle. i mean they represent, i'm the low case bay. you see no d. c. handle that wound or in panama? i bet on us on when you i bit of an alpha delica, lord elliana will buy asap. so community, but i think, i mean, thinking couple yet. so new. i don't even know what i, i even know what they up what bulletin clara levy we have see that you see thing and vice. ah, laurie is gonna be 9 and a half inches with brown hair and brown i. there's a lot of trouble with beauty pageants, but that's another conversation. you know, it meant something that somebody from going on occupy that space. a been

a woman from cologne. i majority black city in my jordy, black province. you know, her face on the screen, her face in the newspapers, that is important. you know, especially for people from couldn't i wonder you're younger than me. the guy. no. no symptom of being. if we're momentum, we're mostly manville it up again. yeah. law always than being full not being never seen done for the most look like are you laughing threaten with the legal of them, you know, super, super good eat, but i'm still didn't act as a very good either. yeah. we'll see on the real number head of moody enough. is there a difference in the opposite side of the book while all you'll get it as you will audio sally violette garcia. you can all guys have formal mentor who you are legally phyllis, palmetto for you know, since the mother, if you leave, i meant it me on will your, for your present. i'm and the like one go

long move and whole lot to me, but i further they carry. see, don't they? upper india said jo don, they are brandy a la la who's dcea la who stacy, i you said a name that i said color names that i couldn't see jody who gave you most our best represent them. brewing caea, if a living among them. um, i mean on the market on for i have my medical stuff all along with it. if people say my mom's when was revolutionary, but actually her radical activism began as a high school student years before her pageant career. i got involved in beauty pageants to ease out the things between me and my mom because all my riot situation on my stand throwing words go may,

how long lose her job. so that's why i was just balancing the, the things out home learn more than get me is about the simple i will scenario. yeah. laugh yeah. i was on the to the and they can't predict our and then for this young, horrible political they kinda get brought it down and go with louis in the brewing 2nd didn't was your brain muscle, c, l, it? it will be a no c, m. put it back up all radical laneesa c, r. they la haynes day, common camera, your gate up at the lab, rawlings yeah. laurie. yeah. and i will the nice rallies and brought this in 5 on the rise of the people. we was fighting for jobs for

24 people. we will fight him for better location. we will fighting for better have system that he almost gave foot out, can go, you know, for a, my achy, that the will borkin also there. i more st deal going wrong model. he know you're not right, but if you know it will be in and we'll base it along nelson on to mind. quinta, alec, while our main t a panama is best known for the great inner ocean highway. the panama canal, the canal zone, a strip of land extending 5 miles on either side of the can out is leased to the united states and is administered from the canal zones. balbo. ah, a. my great grandfather on my mother's side came to panama in the early 20th century.

he was one of the 10s of thousands of black men who came from across the caribbean, looking for work in panama, in places like the canal or the railroad. a balloon is a beautiful province rich province in so many ways, culture, you're rich, it's also a port for the panama canal. ah, both. if you walk through the streets of cologne, you would see a lot of poverty. you will see buildings that are falling apart. that are not for people to live in, but people are living there. and you will see a city that has been abandoned by the rest of the country. ah, i move to the u. s. when i finished high school, it was shocking to me that most people in the us have no idea that their country

occupied panama. build a fence around the canal and said, this is ours. keep out. not only that, but the u. s. important jenko policies into panama, and created separate living areas for white workers, and black and brown workers. this caught a fight anti black and segregationist practices that had existed since enslaved africans were 1st brought to panama vickery american basis in different employers, or coming up with the american soldiers, leaf, segregated from the rest of the group. for the great to separate phone, the all area was, is for americans or, or the you appear white. they live in panama and then the silver for any big but white a you could ok. i live that in north america looking been on my said, or sheila, no e, i can see lack of a consult,

but i think i'm enough to earn what onto unable men are classic is looking long and so on. cnbc can indicate any latino mccloud, i mean, or both of them are visibly someone who will not gonna be in the left front. okay. you're not gonna balance them being k, r v a c t m. as i come along goodbye. they bought 3 months here before. now, if it says anything branch i 70 meg, are they gonna go on? so as a demo with you in law's eloquent courses allow exclusive i meant it. i said, god, the lamb, we're now gonna kiss it up on. she did all that is easier and i figure that glassy, joyful young people. yeah. cause you cynthia, a going runs on, i think the medical char ah,

living is not only believe that racism is, is from someone else to you is as so you to yourself in that i think is the most important thing that we need to work as the black community is to work in embracing our blackness to make the youth feel constable in their own skin to let them say yes, a young black and white. ah, why, via satellite one, thought, julio. but might be miss universe with the morning. and here comes the night of the miss universe.

it i am glued to my tv. ah, i caught everybody a call in a family called lawn. i said make sure to watch this. this is esther we legal room make is 3 because your is the 1st black woman that going to do this. the 1st name on the list of 12. so my finalist is miss scotland. ah. so my final is number 2 is miss panama. you mark whether there's a 4 with gun loaner warriors, lady i thought let go ahead with the little boy phones off. wendy's,

seaboard case as a warning it came, but i'm only lucky out of there now. okay, well every minute i k a 100 percent that they let the anita represent bell panama, ill, google manuel when he read. and when they call gloria to define the ice cream, my long l. o . my mom to in when miss universe. but very few contestants from panama had made it to the top 12 before. and for the people in cologne, who were watching for all the black people in panama. that was a major victory. one movie held, ha, ha, ha, ha ha, by good be who? ala. that's where i faren my brain. it is hope all of you, the burgess avia, gary m which a hint. then k. s. bill our may not it,

but you're ready to sound. i called armano russia. e s o for me been sent me into. ah, she made history. it hurt me to my heart when she came from so career and, you know, i didn't receive her good. there was supposed to come in pick all around panama and he will, she, she did something for us. our people we did. so when she returned the panama, we saw the underlying problems of not given her the recognition that other girls had received. we had a group that was out worth in the black community. one of the members

just jumped in and said, hey, let's give her a car. well, we did it. we had that car available. and when i bought a big, big boat the showed this is a gift of the black community to her queen. ah yes, there is discrimination towards black people in this country. just see who are the ones that have benefited most this month. the offspring of those that work and did every day we are far more than that. give us the recognition. ah.

go to common you does the common the 1st black miss panama? of yes, it was a chase in the and the whole spectrum. and is the history only because you know, another little girl blacklight me with the always she was miss fun am. i could do it to all if she went to miss one of my i could be an attorney, i could be a george, whatever she wants to we is she called dream to be a when my mother was competing for the crown, she was fighting to change the future, she was standing before her country with that deep sense of possibility sharing her story has helped me to recognize this type of power from black women across the country. whether they're working to change the census or fighting for the right to where natural hair from the bears of, or cultural traditions to the young generations. asking questions about her history

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