Vanessa Williams

Many times when discussing women in R&B during the '90s, the same names dominate the conversation. Here's a list of some (good) singers you might have forgotten.

I was watching the Miss America Pageant when Vanessa Williams was crowned the first African- American Miss America. Hey this was just as big as Barrack Obama winning the presidency. African Americans were so proud of her. In that very same year Vanessa Williams was forced to resign because Penthouse purchased and published some nude pictures and published them...