Angela Maria Ponce Camacho was born on January 18, 1991, in Sevilla, Spain. She is a Spanish beauty pageant winner, a fashion model, and an activist. Ponce knew at an early age she was different as a boy who identified as a girl. She faced a lot of challenges and all types of bullying. Her school believed that because of...

RuPaul Andre Charles is an American drag queen, actor, model, singer, songwriter, and television personality. Since 2009, he has produced and hosted the reality competition series RuPaul's Drag Race, for which he has received eight Primetime Emmy Awards. RuPaul is considered to be the most commercially successful drag queen...

Karla Sixtos is currently a senior and is a part of the AHHC academy.  She is involved in many programs such as Cardinals Interact, FACES for the Future, College Avenue Compact, and Wahupa Educational Talent Search. Through these programs, she is able to participate in academic opportunities and be involved and give back to...

The Hoover Drama Department's annual haunted house will not be open this year due to the closure of school campuses because of Coronavirus. It would've been the 13th year of the annual haunted house, and many students are sad and disappointed.  However, the advance drama students have created a short film that involves online...

Kimberly De Alba is a junior at Hoover High and is in the SJA academy. She is 16 years old and was born in San Diego. She is an incredibly brilliant and hardworking student. She is a part of many programs at Hoover such as, Aaron Price, Mending Minds, Price Scholars, and Students Without Limits. She is also on the Hoover swim...

This upcoming Saturday, October 31st, will be Halloween but it will look so much different because of the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic. For millions of Americans, it's a tradition every year on Halloween to put on costumes, go trick or treating, give out candies, and decorate their houses. It has become a part of America’s culture...

Demi Lavato is a longtime LGBTQ+ advocate, and revealed last year that she was open to dating women, saying: “That’s how I’ve always felt.” Demi Lavato never really officially opened up to her parents about her sexuality until she officially saw herself ending up with a woman. "It was actually emotional, but really...

Breast Cancer Awareness month is supported every year from October 1st through October 31st in order to show support for people with breast cancer. The pink ribbons are worn to honor the survivors and to support the defeat of breast cancer. As many of you may know, breast cancer starts in the breast area with cancer cells...

Miley Cyrus is a singer- songwriter and actress. She's most famously known for her role as Hannah Montana on Disney Channel. Miley was born on November 23, 1992 in Franklin, Tennessee. Her father is Billy Ray Cyrus who is also an American singer-songwriter and actor. During one of her breaks ups with her former husband Liam...

Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg was born on January 19, 1982, in South Bend, Indiana. He is known as an American politician and Afghanistan War veteran. His father was born and raised in Hamrun, Malta, and his mother in Sranisclaus, California for which Buttigieg holds dual US-Maltese citizenship. Peter Buttigieg was valedictorian...

Janelle Monae is a woman from a sprawling working-class family in Kansas City.  She grew up to be a superstar singer-songwriter, actor (Moonlight, Hidden Figures, Amazon’s series Homecoming), and CEO of her own record label, Wondaland. In a cover story for Rolling Stone, Monáe revealed herself as a “queer black woman”...

Ellen page was born on February 21, 1987 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She is a Canadian actress and producer. The actress came out as gay during the Human Rights Campaign's Time to Thrive conference in 2014, during which she gave a  powerful 8-minute speech about the internal turmoil she endured as a closeted actress in...

Jennifer Murillo, also goes by Jenn. She is a 16-year-old Mexican-American female that was born on September 24, in Aurora, Colorado. She has been attending Hoover High since freshman year and has always been a part of the Academy of Health and Healthier Communities (AHHC) as well as FACES for the Future. She is currently the...

Harvey Milk was a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He was well known when he “became one of the first openly gay officials in the United States to be elected into office in 1977, unheard of at the time. Milk was very private about his sexuality.  He knew he was gay when he was in high school but...

Covid-19 has taken a toll on society, my community and my family. In the beginning, Covid was just starting to spread throughout Wuhan, China. Then, rapidly spread throughout the United States and it was only a matter of time when it landed in San Diego. Once it began spreading in my city, it spread near my community then...

Estrella Avalos is currently a 17-year-old senior at Hoover High School. She was born and raised in San Diego, California and her birthday is on August 8. Her parents came to the United States from Mexico, without knowing how to speak English and had to adapt to the new country on their own. This makes Estrella’s biggest role...

COVID 19 has really affected a lot of people, financially or emotionally but it has had an effect on many of us. Personally, the first few months, my family and I had it rough. My dad lost one of his jobs and well, he's basically the one who worked two jobs to make sure we were financially stable. Since many places were closed...

In August, San Diego Unified School District officials announced that students and staff would only return to school but through distance learning at home, while they consider preparations to get students back onto campuses physically, but it could be months before actually returning. San Diego Unified created a plan to keep...

The hashtag #SaveOurChildren has been recently trending in a lot of popular social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. You might also see people sharing the hashtag #SavetheChildren on social media, but much of this online activity has nothing to do with the respected and real Save the Children charity. Its...

Covid 19 hasn't been easy on anyone, affecting people, businesses and communities. Not only is President Trump handling this pandemic horribly, whether calling it a hoax and spreading lies about the virus, he degrades the loss of people's lives from Covid, and doesn't even care if people follow the safety guidelines. In addition,...