Halle Berry White School Prom Queen Controversy Explained
Halle Berry has opened up about her experience of being one of the only Black people in her school as a teenager — and how the faculty refused to accept that she was voted prom queen over a white…
I’d had a long-term boyfriend until a couple months before prom, so Adam and I never had the chance to consider each other as anything more than friends — except for maybe what others saw: a fruit and his fly, a fag and his hag. As I caught a glimpse of him changing just…
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“I hadn’t intended on going to my prom. I was pretty much a loner/outsider with no girlfriend. Some girls approached me about taking a girl who had just broken up with her boyfriend. I had to rush around to get an outfit, arrange a pre-prom dinner, and…