Since Zaila Avant-garde won the Scripps National Spelling Bee last June and became the first Black American to win the competition, she has appeared on the cover of Time magazine and was honored ...

How long can the avant-garde go on being the avant-garde? In jazz, 40 years and counting. Four decades on, and the avant-garde's liberating innovations and extremes have yet to be either absorbed ...

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 ...

Zaila Avant-garde, a 14-year-old from the New Orleans area, won the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night, becoming the bee’s first African American champion in its 96-year history.