As the school year comes to a conclusion, there is an unsurprising amount of action going on. With students and staff alike preparing for finals, AP exams, and seniors getting...

When a human feels threatened, they tend to enter fight or flight mode - they either fight, run, or freeze. This psychological tendency can be applied to anything that ignites...

Normally, when it comes to people who change a person’s life, one would might think  about a father or mother - maybe a sibling or extended family member. But for me, it’s...

All throughout this school year and the beginning of last year, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost every single aspect of daily life. One of the most common phenomena...

The movies The Help, Green Book, 12 Years a Slave, The Blindside, Freedom Writers and more  have all won Academy Awards for their portrayals of the treatment of African-Americans...

The 4-part series produced by Ava DuVernay, When They See Us, is a prime example of light being shed on a controversial topic. The film brought awareness to topics such as...

Overview  Monster was written by Walter Dean Myers, a New York’s Time bestselling author. It was published in 1999 about a young man named Steve on trial for a murder...

The birds are singing, the temperatures are rising, and the trees are forming their buds. Finally at last, spring is here after all the polar vortex and all those inches of...

In this section of the Hawk Eye, I will be interviewing my grandmother, Veronica Polk. In this interview, I asked her about her life and more specifically her authenticity...

As the school year comes to an interesting conclusion, one might imagine the whirlwind of emotions and thoughts running through the minds of Hillcrest’s students --the seniors--in...