“Lean on Me” by Bill Withers Review: An Anthem for Solidarity
by Kira Edwards
Time and time again, we have seen the song rally together those rising up after tragedies …
Manjaneel -short story
by Indeyah Todman Why the Manjaneel Tree is Poisonous The tree was mighty. The gigantic, godly tree with bright green leaves shaped like ovals stood 50 feet tall in the island sand. Its fruit was circular like an orange but was a light green color. On the island of St. Croix, everyone loved the tree …
I need to speak ‘properly’-A Response to Spoken Word TEDTALK
by Wilah-Marie Baptiste *NOTE: Jamila Lyiscott, PhD., aka, Dr. J, is an aspiring way-maker, a community-engaged scholar, nationally renowned speaker, and co-founder/co-director of the Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research. Dr. J is most well known for being featured on TED.com where her video, ‘3 Ways to Speak English,’ has been viewed over 4.8 million …
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? A Contemporary Analysis
REPRINTED from 2020 -by Jada Roberts, Dahlia Ferrol, and Sabina Ferrol “Fellow-citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions! whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, to-day, rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that reach them.” Words from Frederick Douglass’ speech are applicable to people of color in the …
#tasteofstcroix 2022
UVIABJ members hone their photography and videography skills at the twenty-second Taste of St. Croix event held at the Divi Casino Resort
KACTF presents play about Ethel Waters: More than Sweet
by Indeyah Todman (STX, February 5, 2022) Florida A&M University’s (FAMU) “Sweet Mama Stringbean,” is more than sweet. Directed by Evelyn D. Tyler, a cast of talented Florida A&M University (FAMU) student actors bring playwright Beth Turner’s vision to life in the hour-long play. Behind the play is a prolific group of skillful stage management, …
The littlest SANTA: KOHL SEALEY leads Xmas Toy Giveaway, Again
Littlest SANTA UVIVOICE 2.0 staff (Christiansted, USVI). For the second year in a row, the University of the Virgin Islands Association of Black Journalists Xmas Toys Giveaway was led by one of the youngest Virgin Islander. 4-year-old Kohl Sealey, resident of St. Croix eagerly gathered up some of his favorite toys and filled two boxes …
Locals Reflect on Virgin Island Artist Paloma McGregor
by J’nise Gifft Dancing While Black is just that, all that, up in that (what of that?), a fracture, an intersection, a mending, a void stolen and borrowed and originated and born again and again and again; resurrected, laughing at its own coincidence; ugly and profound, everyday and magicelectric; Dancing While Black is… has been… …