THE OBSERVATION BOOTH
MISS BLACK AMERICA
True beauty is not only about wearing a crown. Wearing that crown is about your being. Sitting on that throne is all about the people. – Elizabeth “Liz” Dicker Larkin, Miss Senior Black America
The Founder of Miss Black America: J. Morris Anderson
Senior Miss Black America Elizabeth “Liz” Dicker Larkin aka “LizzPetite”
Founder and CEO of Angelic Halo Foundation
Manager: Tyrone Chablis
FB: LizDicker
IG: #lizzpetite1
BEAUTY SPEAKS
Initially, I wasn’t going to do the pageant. Truthfully, God told me, “You’re going to do this pageant.” He kept saying, “You can do this.” I thought, “Who is Me? Why Me?” He’s been doing this a lot with me. Saying, “Why not you?” If I choose you to do something and be something, you can do it. Because I am in control, that was in my spirit, and I’ve been receiving that and trying to obey. Usually, we don’t obey. As people, we ask ourselves, is God trying to tell us something, or is it in our heads? Lately, however, He has been transforming my whole being and movement.
So God was talking to me, and Dr. Esq. Diane Eubanks, Director of the Miss Black America Senior Division, continued calling me. As did Joanne Jefferson, Founder of the Jefferson Foundation. She is the Director of Local Montclair Miss Black America. Whose pageant I won, the Queen Diva Pageant, and with the Queen Diva title, you can go on to Nationals under her platform for Miss Black America or Senior Miss America. It was last minute when I decided to join, but things worked out thanks to sponsorship and my supporters. God worked it out.
One of the driving forces was also the girls that I mentored. You have to show them also. If I’m not doing it myself, I can’t just tell them the possibilities and give them advice and direction. Raya, one of the young ladies I mentor, was going for Miss America. So I decided that I would go with her. True beauty is not only about wearing a crown. Wearing that crown is about your being. Sitting on that throne is all about the people. I want to be that to her, my mentees, my family, and our people. That’s what representing this crown and being Miss Senior Black America is all about!
DIAMONDS BEAUTY & PAGENTS
For 3 decades, MISS SENIOR BLACK AMERICA has been a regularly featured runway and print model, runway coach, choreographer, and creative coordinator of fashion and talent showcases. Ignoring the fashion industry’s tendency to utilize models of a particular height, Liz continues to pioneer the way for greater utilization of petite models.
Most recently, Elizabeth became the recipient of an unprecedented honor. Receiving 5 prestigious awards from high ranking officials in New York City (Congressional Cert of Recognition (1); City Council Citations (2); NY Assembly (1), and a Certificate of Recognition from the Office of the Mayor (1). The Anointed & Appointed Soul Sisters presented these highly coveted awards.
Additionally, MISS SENIOR BLACK AMERICA also has recently opened her own nonprofit organization called “Angelic Halo Foundation.” This foundation actively mentors youth, supports and raises awareness in health, in particular Cancer, Lupus, Juvenile Diabetes and Domestic Violence, as well as, recognizing in honorship to the angels in our communities that assist to make a difference in our communities.
Liz uses her diverse expertise in fashion and arts/entertainment related platforms to broaden community awareness of both resources and pillars of the community. Elizabeth is also on the board of directors of Martha’s Village JCCMI, an organization that aids a children orphanage in Liberia with its CEO Comfort Finn, along with her husband Dewayne Finn.
A true humanitarian at heart, Elizabeth “Liz” Dicker Larkin embodies the definition to the fullest extent of the phrase. She is the dedicated wife of Darryl Larkin and loving mother of three talented sons (two with special needs). Liz learned how to find balance between pursuing her life’s purpose and raising a family, all while helping to improve the quality of life for many others.
DID YA KNOW THAT…
Beauty Pageants
An assemblage of girls or women at which judges select the most beautiful. called also beauty pageant. b.: a contest or competitive situation that is likened to a traditional beauty contest especially in involving judgments made on the basis of physical attractiveness or popular appeal. – Google
Black Beauty is a saying associated with Americans that are Black and how we act accordingly to our culture and race. It’s about the African wardrobe, hairstyles, cooking, names that have particular meaning for example in Ghana Culture the name Koji is for a male born on Friday. – Google
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