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The Miss Black Texas USA Pageant is the official state pageant for the Miss Black USA Organization.  As an independently produced production by Black All-American Pageant Systems, Inc., which was established in 1999 by Candace Cooper and is based in Houston, Texas, the Miss Black USA Pageant and Scholarship Foundation, Inc. and Miss Black Texas USA Pageant Organization, is a non-profit corporation in the state of Maryland and Texas respectively, recognized under the 501(c) 3 code of the Internal Revenue Service. The Miss Black USA Pageant and Scholarship Foundation, Inc., was founded in 1986 by Karen Arrington.