Spelling bee champion, world record holder and best-selling author Zaila Avant-garde has taken her talents to the University of Maryland’s campus as she tackles her newest challenge: college. At the ...

Scripps National Spelling Bee winner Zaila Avant-garde's hometown threw her a parade fit for a champion. According to Nola.com and WDSU, Avant-garde's hometown of Harvey, Louisiana, threw the ...

An exceptional young woman who cemented herself in the history books has a bright future ahead. The saying goes, hard work pays off, and Zaila Avant-garde has taken that to the max. At 18, Avant-garde ...

He championed works of cinema that were destined never to have a commercial breakthrough — which, to him, was the whole point. By Adam Nossiter P. Adams Sitney, who pioneered the study of avant-garde ...

Zaila Avant-garde understood the significance of what she was doing as she stood on the Scripps National Spelling Bee stage, peppering pronouncer Jacques Bailly with questions about Greek and Latin ...

LEAD Girls of North Carolina kicked off their 6th annual Rising EXPO, themed “Change Makers in the Making,” on Thursday, Oct. 24, at Parkland High School. A community conversation with Zaila ...

The Disney Dreamers Academy hosted 100 students from across the country. The 15th Disney Dreamers Academy took place at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida from Thursday to Sunday and offered four ...

Zaila Avant-garde walks onto the basketball court with the kind of confidence an NBA player might exude, but the Whitney Houston shirt she sports alludes to the light-hearted nature that follows this ...

HARVEY, La. -- Leave it to small-town Louisiana to know how to throw a party for one of their own. The community of Harvey, Louisiana threw a well-deserved parade for 14-year-old Zaila Avant-Garde, in ...