Meet Lauren Scruggs: The First Black American Woman To Win An Individual Fencing Medal At The Olympics

Meet Lauren Scruggs: The First Black American Woman To Win An Individual  Fencing Medal At The Olympics

Essence Magazine:

Photo by Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for USOPC By Melissa Noel ·Updated July 30, 2024

Lauren Scruggs made U.S. Olympic history by winning silver in women’s individual foil fencing, becoming the first Black woman from the United States to earn an individual medal in a women’s fencing

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