Written and Directed by Channing Godfrey Peoples
Starring Nicole Beharie, Kendrick Sampson and Alexis Chikaeze
Running time: 1 hour and 43 minutes

Betting on a Promise

by Jessie Landivar Prescott

Miss Juneteenth is the story of a thousand micro aggressions, a hundred missed opportunities, a dozen serious regrets. It's the story of Turquoise Jones (Nicole Beharie), a former Miss Juneteenth pageant winner, who we are introduced to as she preps her teenage daughter (Alexis Chikazee) to enter the pageant. You see, in their community, to win the pageant is to be seen, to be acknowledged, and it comes with a full scholarship to a historic university.