A North Greenbush fifth grader will be heading to the nation's capital next week to compete in the 2025 Scripps National ...

11-year-old Akeelah Anderson has a way with words. After winning her schoolwide spelling bee, she decides to enter the competition, despite her classmates' derision and the antipathy of her mother ...

That’s when she saw the movie “Akeelah and the Bee,” which chronicles a fictional girl’s effort to win the national spelling bee. Since then, Krrisha has been studying etymology and ...

I believe in saving and frugality … I don’t play around with that,” shared the 31-year-old actor who taught us all how to spell “pulchritude” in her breakthrough role as Akeelah Anderson ...

Keke Palmer has been acting since the age of 10, but realized she couldn't rely on it as her sole source of income, she told ...

She ended her monologue by saying that, even if you know her from her work as a child actor in movies like "Akeelah and the Bee," she's a ... up with the perfect book. Previously, she covered ...

From Keke’s breakout role in “Akeelah and the Bee” to her transition into hosting, singing, and producing, Palmer’s guidance helped build Keke into one of the most versatile entertainers.

He's been reading plenty of spelling books like the National Spelling Bee's official guide, "Words of the Champions," and practicing spelling with both his mom and a spelling tutor. To figure out ...

“Tight Heads” is the title of actress Candy Clark’s new book. It’s a nod to the term ... Clark said in an interview with The Modesto Bee. “I never kept a diary or anything like that.

In late April, thousands of runners took the streets of Champaign-Urbana for race weekend. Every runner had a story, whether it was pushing toward a personal goal, training while juggling kids and ...