Daily News | At 14, she was the first Black American student to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. At 16, she has some words of wisdom for all of us.
One solution? Highlight the myriad of accomplishments made by teens like Avant-garde, who is keenly aware of the unfairness in the world around her, even as she takes it by storm. Avant-garde’s success has been celebrated by the likes of Barack and Michelle Obama, LeBron James, and Jill Biden.
In her latest book, she writes about how reaching your goals takes a lot of hard work — and that includes those world records she holds for mostin one minute with four basketballs and the most basketballs dribbled simultaneously by one person.
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