14-year-old Zaila Avant-garde wins the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee
The eighth-grader, who is the first African American winner of the bee, ended the competition with the word "murraya."
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14-year-old Zaila Avant-garde wins the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee
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