By Hilah Kohen In Israel, a high school student’s next step isn’t college or a career; it's mandatory military service. Amy Schey ’13 moved to West High in 2009, and returning to Israel for military...

By Amelia Moser Author and activist Alice Walker has written many works, but she is likely best known for her novel The Color Purple. Winning her a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction...

By Stephon Berry One of Hip Hop and R&B’s most promising prospects, ruined by drugs but with a legacy of soulful and socially relevant music Lauryn Noelle Hill will continue to captivate and inspire...

Born in 1919 in Montgomery, Alabama, Nat King Cole began his musical career when he began the piano at the age of four. He continued to play the piano for his Baptist church and received classical piano...

By Lucy Blair Mahalia Jackson, the song bird from God. The Queen of Gospel, the background to the civil rights movement in America. Perhaps even the first successful African American gospel singer. Jackson...

Students Producing Innovative Theatre, also known as SPIT, puts on their productions of student-directed one-act plays "Variations on a Theme" and "The Werewolf and His Problems" today and tomorrow. Here's...

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By Hilah Kohen I enjoy nothing more than a trip to my grandmother's house. However, like many of my classmates, I don't just go over the river and through the woods to get there. Two weeks ago, my parents,...

Watch the top ranked West High boys basketball team defeat the City High Little Hawks 70-34. West has won the last two Class 4A state titles, and has now gone 60 straight games undefeated.

By Danial Syed From humble beginnings, tennis player Arthur Ashe earned worldwide renown. Born in 1943, he was forbidden from playing football (his father thought he was too skinny), so he took to...

Patricia Bath is known for her many accomplishments in the ophthalmology field. One of the most prominent however, is that she was the first African American to complete residency in ophthalmology in 1973. At...