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Your kids in the trials in spelling or how about spelling combat? doesn't that sound wholesome? or my favorite, a spelldown. spelldown! so the event itself is interesting enough but that brings us back to this year's winner, zaila avant-garde. 15 years ago black spellers got a bit of the spotlight thanks to the disney movie "aquila and the bee." miss palmer congratulated her real life inspiration. she is the kind of winner we don't often see at spelling bee. is it so rare to see black students excel at this? zaila avant-garde is the first

Spelling? or how about spelling combat? don't that sound wholesome? or my favorite, a spelldown. spelldown. so the event itself is interesting enough, but that brings us back to this year's winner, zaila avant-garde, the first african-american to win the scripps national spelling bee. it's not the kind of accolade black kids get often. black spellers got the spotlight in "akeelah and the bee." the real-life akeelah, you guys, i'm so happy in my heart, unquote. it was a happy moment for many people, the kind of winner we don't often see at spelling bees. but is it so rare to see black students ...