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The Advocate News @Hawkins

The Advocate News @Hawkins

Graduation 2025 on YouTube Live

Caterin D. Ramos and Videographer June 9, 2025

Link to the digital Graduation program 2025 This is the third time that Hawkins HS has live streamed the graduation on YouTube Live via LAUSD channel.  Full disclosure, there were some technical difficulties...

My Last Story

My Last Story

Gabriel Ortuno Castilla, photographer June 4, 2025

It's hard to believe I'm writing this, but here it is my last article. Looking back, joining journalism was one of the best decisions I made in high school. I honestly regret not pushing harder to get...

Teen Drugs

Teen Drugs

Aelicia Hale, Reporter March 15, 2025

According to LAUSD Substance Use and Mental Health Report” substance abuse starts as early as grade 7 and so this summarizes teen abuse is seventh ninth and eleventh grade in LAUSD. 30 percent of students...

Illustration by Angelica Ramirez

Equivocal Latter

Latrice Wright and Angelica Ramirez March 7, 2025

My eyebrows furrow when you talk to me. My nose scrunches, My mouth concaves, My eyelids clasp together,  My jaw clenches.  My eyes look down when you sit next to me. My arms locked...

From the classroom to the streets: my experience in immigrant rights walkout

From the classroom to the streets: my experience in immigrant rights walkout

Gabriel Ortuno Castilla, photographer February 15, 2025

I walked from Hawkins to Manual to Santee to City Hall and 6th Street Bridge. I heard about the walkout on February 6, 2025, through a social media post. The now-deleted post called for students to meet...

Teen Runaways

Teen Runaways

Aelicia Hale, Reporter January 28, 2025

According to publications.aap.org: “The largest segment of missing children in the United States includes runaways, children who run away from home, and throwaways, children who are told to leave...

What makes the cat so bad?

Latrice Wright, Poet December 13, 2024

This story is about a cat, two western-fence lizards, and a lynx. It will center around stereotypes projected on the cat and/or the lynx in the story. In the beginning of the story, there are gonna be...

Charolette's riddle

Hawkins’ CarnEvil Haunted House

Xariene Valtierra, Photographer November 22, 2024

Slavery in (2024)?

Slavery in (2024)?

Desmaj Murphy, Reporter November 7, 2024

For the last three days, people in the Los Angeles area have been receiving very racist messages from random numbers. The messages state that they are selected to pick cotton on various dates in November...

Senior Sunrise

Senior Sunrise

Gabriel Ortuno Castilla, photographer October 8, 2024

Sea It To Believe It

June 9, 2024

HELPFUL INSTRUCTION Hundreds of instructional sessions how to improve your publications and sites — and serve your readers and community. Pre-convention workshops that take a deep...

Univision Channel 34 March 12, 2024
https://www.univision.com/local/los-angeles-kmex/madre-teme-por-su-hijo-le-roban-y-fracturan-la-nariz-por-ser-latino-en-escuela-de-los-angeles-video

Why was Hawkins on the news?

Perla Vanegas, Reporter March 21, 2024

This week's spice, Augustus F. Hawkins High School, was on the news. On March 11, Hawkins made an appearance on Univision. For those wondering, Univision is a well-known Latin worldwide news channel. Many...

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