Sylvia Rivera was a veteran of the 1969 Stonewall uprising. She was a tireless advocate for all those who were put aside as the “gay rights” movement has mainstreamed.  Rivera was a Puerto Rican American transgender activists. She was born on July 2,1951, raised in New York City. Her birth father abandoned her and she became...

Mayte Michelle Rodriguez  was born on July 12, 1978 and is an American actress. Her breakout role as a troubled boxer in the independent film Girlfight was met with critical acclaim, and earned her several awards, including the Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award for Best Debut Performance.  The following year, she starred...

Ritchie John Torres was born on March 12, 1988, and is an American politician from New York. A member of the Democratic Party, Torres is the U.S. Representative for New York's 15th congressional district.  Torres served as the New York City Councilmember for the 15th district from 2013 to 2020. He was the first openly gay...

Roberto Gonzalez is a senior here at Hoover. He was born on May 26, and is best described by others as dedicated, smart, and a passionate person. He is also a 4.0 student, whose favorite subject is math. He has one other sibling who also attends Hoover. He has played on the Hoover Soccer Varsity team since his freshman year...

I have to write about clothes?  At first I wasn't sure why or what to write, but now I understand why I  put this in my list of things that are important to me. I don't usually tell anyone about my future plans or where or who I want to be but in reality, I want to be a fashion designer. At first, I told myself journalism...

Music is the art of arranging sounds in time through the element of melody, harmony, rhythm, music is all over society. Music is someone’s everyday friend, it will be there in the not so good  days and in the good days. I believe music is the best way of communicating and expressing ourselves. It affects our emotions by...

To me one of the important games was Super Smash Bros Ultimate as it gives me nostalgia towards the series I grew up with. When I was younger the game I got for this series was Super Smash Bros Brawl for the Wii. And I fell in love with it. Getting to see different characters from series that I knew, and didn’t know, was...

AQUINAS, whose real name is Kang Min-soo, is a South Korean independent rapper and songwriter, who was born on January 13, 2001. He made his official debut on May 2, 2020, with the single “Oh!”. He was a contestant on the Korean TV show High School Rapper in 2019, where he came in second place. In 2016, he competed in the...

Emma González was a high school student in Parkland, Florida, when a mass gunman killed 17 people at her school on Valentine's Day in 2018. It was the worst high school shooting in US history. Emma González was just 18 years old when 17 of her friends were murdered in the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High...

Julio Salgado  was born on September 1, 1983, in Ensenda, Mexico.  He is a gay artist who grew up in Long Beach, California. Through the use of art, Salgado has become a well-known activist within the DREAM Act movement. Salgado uses his art to empower undocumented and queer people by telling their story and putting a human...

Demi Lovato is a American pop singer, songwriter, and actress. Lovato has been active in their career of singing since 2002 and has been in films since they were a child. They were born in 1992 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Their father is Mexican and their mother is Irish. Lovato describes their sexuality as fluid, and has...

Kevin Solis is a sophomore at Hoover High School. He is 15 years old, and born on August 8th. He is a part of the ALMA academy. Kevin was born and raised in San Diego, California, but often travels. Some of the places he's visited before are Canada, Mexico, and Michigan. Kevin is a very reliable person and will always give more...

I personally prefer in person instead of doing the whole virtual thing even though I have to cross the border on a daily basis. Virtual school was fast, convenient, and required much less effort than face-to-face. It is more effective than a phone interview too. That and we got to wake up at nine in the morning. However, in...

Nghi Vo is a Chinese American author and a novelist. Her new upcoming book “Siren Queen” is expected to be out on May 10, 2022. Vo was born December 4, 1981 in Peoria, Illinois. There, She attended the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. As a child, Vo gravitated toward books with pretty covers, especially science...

Jovita Idar Vivero  was born on September 7, 1885, and was an American journalist, teacher, political activist, and civil rights worker who championed the cause of Mexican-Americans and Mexican immigrants. Against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, which lasted a decade from 1910 through 1920, Jovita worked for a series...

The disappearance of Gabby Petito made headline news around the world.  However, this also brought to light disparities in media coverage of missing persons of color.  In 2020, according to the San Diego police department, 900 kids were reported missing, about 100 cases are still open.  Many never receive the same attention...

Hatsheput was the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty and the second confirmed female pharaoh after Sobekneferu. She called herself “king” and a lot of her monuments, she referred to herself as “her majesty, the king.” To even assert her kingship she had a false beard to fit her chin and wore the garb of a male monarch....

Edward James Olmos was born on February 24, 1947, and is an American actor, director, producer, and activist.  Olmos was born and raised in East Los Angeles, California.  His parents split up when he was seven years old, and he was primarily raised by his great-grandparents as his parents worked. He grew up wanting to be a...

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month and LGBTQ+ History Month

Roberto Clemente Walker was born on August 18, 1934.  He was a professional baseball player who was an icon in his native Puerto Rico and one of the first Latin American baseball stars in the United States.  He was a Major League Baseball player for 18 years (MLB). From 1955 until 1972, he was a right fielder for the Pittsburgh...