Black Teen Runs Hoops Around Spelling Bee Competitors
11 Jul 2021, 07:05 GMT+10
An African-American teenager from Louisiana has won the National Spelling Bee, only the second Black competitor to win the prestigious annual contest.
Zaila Avant-garde, 14, jumped and twirled with joy upon being declared the winner after nailing the spelling of murraya, a genus of tropical Asiatic and Australian citrus trees. I was pretty relaxed on the subject of murraya, and pretty much any other word I got, Zaila said.
Zaila said she hopes to inspire other African Americans who might not understand the appeal of spelling or can t afford to pursue it. The only previous Black winner of the bee was also the only international winner: Jody-Anne Maxwell of Jamaica in 1998.
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