Zaila Avant-garde won the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night, becoming the first Black American winner in the competition’s 96-year history. The 14-year-old from Harvey, La., cor…
with “Good Morning America,” Avant-garde said it felt great to win after two years of training.
Avant-garde hopes to see more African Americans doing well in the competition as she believes it’s“I’m hoping that in a few years, I’ll see a whole lot more African American females, and males, too, doing well in theYou don’t really see too many African Americans doing too well in spelling bees, and that’s a bit sad because it’s a gate-opener to being interested in education.”
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