One Smart Cookie - Historical Spelling Bee Winner = 14 Year Old Black Girl!

From HuffPost - 

Spelling Bee Champ Is A Speed-Reading Math Whiz Who Holds 3 World Records

Zaila Avant-garde, 14, also made history at this year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee.

By Elyse Wanshel 

Zaila Avant-garde competes in the first round of the
Scripps National Spelling Bee finals in Orlando, Florida, on July 8.
JIM WATSON VIA GETTY IMAGES

This year’s spelling bee champ is F-A-S-C-I-N-A-T-I-N-G.

Zaila Avant-garde, a 14-year-old from Harvey, Louisiana, made history Thursday when she became the first African American winner and the second Black champion in the Scripps National Spelling Bee’s 96-year history.

But that may not even be the most interesting thing about the teen.

Zaila, who dipped her toe into competitive spelling just two years ago, knows how to speed-read and discovered that she could divide five-digit numbers by two-digit numbers in her head, according to The New York Times.

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