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July 9, 2021 01:35 pm GMT

14-year-old from New Orleans is the first black youngster to win national spelling bee

Zaila Avant-garde, 14, this week became the first Black American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee in a century of events. The winning word: "murraya", a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family.

Avant-garde, from New Orleans, is the first Black contestant to win since Jody-Anne Maxwell of Jamaica in 1998.

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