Harini Logan, a cheerful 14-year-old from San Antonio, Texas, made history on June 2, 2022. She became the first Scripps National Spelling Bee champion to win after being eliminated and later ...

Over the past 20 years, Indian Americans have come to dominate the Scripps National Spelling Bee even though they comprise only about 1% of the U.S. population. The bee was canceled in 2020 due to the ...

ANNAPOLIS, MD – In a night filled with anticipation and excitement, 12-year-old Bruhat Soma from St. Petersburg, FL, emerged as the champion of the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee. Bruhat clinched ...

When spellers win the Scripps National Spelling Bee, audiences always want to know their secret. Yet this question seems to be asked far more in recent years in response to an Indian-American winning ...

Correct spelling isn't a horse-naming requirement. — -- Of the long list of check marks to name a race horse, spell-check isn’t one of them. A little less than 30 percent of names submitted to ...

If you are an Indian American obsessed with American sports, occasions for ethnic fandom have been scant at best. After the two Vijays—the tennis player Amritraj and the golfer Singh—who do we really ...

Shalini Shankar has received research funding for this project from the National Science Foundation (BCS-1323769), the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and Northwestern University.

Popularly called "the blue-black speller," many African Americans remember Noah Webster's Elementary Spelling Book as the way they learned to read and spell after slavery. Description A faded blue ...

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For anyone who doubted Tori Spelling‘s claims that she was broke, this new report will certainly make you think otherwise. Why, you ask? Because Spelling has been slapped with a lawsuit from American ...