H-E-C-T-I-C. "Hectic" has become one of Zaila Avant-garde's most frequently used words to describe life after winning the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee in July. The 15-year-old Louisiana native ...

Zaila Avant-garde made history when she won the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night. The 14-year-old from New Orleans, Louisiana, is the first African American winner in the bee's ...

Scripps National Spelling Bee winner Zaila Avant-garde has been busy since her victory on July 8. Already, the 14-year-old eighth-grader has been celebrated by the likes of Barack and Michelle Obama, ...

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Zaila Avant-garde understood the significance of what she was doing as she stood on the Scripps National Spelling Bee stage, peppering pronouncer Jacques Bailly with questions ...

The newly crowned 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee winner, Zaila Avant-garde, holds three Guinness World Records for her ability to dribble multiple basketballs at a time Nicholas Rice is a Senior ...

Zaila Avant-garde won the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2021, becoming the first African American to win the nation’s premier spelling bee contest. At the time, she was living in Louisiana, but ...

Zaila Avant-garde, the Louisiana native who won the Scripps National Spelling Bee at age 14 in 2021, can now add author to her impressive resume. PEOPLE reports that Avant-garde will release two brand ...

When you grow up around New Orleans with street names like Tchoupitoulas, silent letters and words pronounced absolutely nothing like how they’re spelled become the norm. So it makes sense that a few ...