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UPCLOSE and PERSONAL-UVI adds “Cool” new leadership

UVI Student Journalists Secure Exclusive Interview With University President  by Maliah LaCour ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands, Jan 2025— On a bright and bustling fall afternoon in 2024, three young reporters hurried into the administration building on the Orville E….

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LaCour

Staff. (St. Thomas. January 2025) Maliah LaCour’s performance against the Lady Knights women’s basketball team from Southern University in New Orleans earlier this month was exceptional. Her display of Caribbean sports prowess at the Elridge Blake Sports and Fitness Center…

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UVI ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALISTS ELECT NEW BOARD MEMBERS: Continuing to lead the charge of Journalism Excellence

Continuing to lead the charge of Journalism Excellence (STT, November 22, 2024). The University of the Virgin Islands Association of Black Journalists (UVIABJ) elected new student members to serve on the executive board for the 2024-25 academic year. Nico Thomas,…

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“KARENS” BEWARE

WATCH OUT “KARENS” (Staff, Lia Garvey & Tanika Charles, contributing writers, St. Croix, July 30, 2024). Virgin Islanders may be spared actual encounters  with “Karens” but should realize that these people actually exist. Their true motives, which often underline racism,…

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Opal Lee- Grandmother of Juneteenth

by Leyla Abdallah, contributor Often referred to as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” Opal Lee played a crucial role in advocating for Juneteenth to become a federal holiday. Her activism journey was influenced by her personal experiences and historical awareness, which…

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UVI Student Winners of the Historic Self-Determination and Constitutional Development Poetry and Essay Contest

(STX/STT, June 12, 2024) staff. UVI Student Winners of the Historic Self-Determination and Constitutional Development Poetry and Essay Contest The University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) is pleased to announce the cash prize winners of the Historic Self-Determination and Constitutional…

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PRESTIGIOUS CANNES LION FESTIVAL RECOGNIZES UVIABJ JOURNALIST Celebrating creativity that drives progress.

PRESTIGIOUS CANNES LION FESTIVAL RECOGNIZES UVIABJ JOURNALIST Celebrating Creative Energy that Promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (staff, April 2024, STX). The University of the Virgin Islands Association of Black Journalists (UVIABJ) continues to live vicariously through its members and announces…

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UVIABJ Press Travel 5000 miles and Explore ‘Black Wall Street’

(St. Croix, April 27, 2024) Four University of the Virgin Islands Association of Black Journalists students traveled 2,285 miles one way to join more than 300 professional and practicing television, print, and radio journalists for the 2024 event, “Black Press…

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RAISING THE BAR, CONTINUING TO PUSH HARDER: UVIABJ Student Journalists Faced Stiff Competition in 2024 SRPI

(Staff, STT, USVI, April 2024). For the third consecutive year, Comm majors/minors at the University of the Virgin Islands participated in the Southern Regional Press Institute at Savannah State University and were recognized for their outstanding reporting and writing skills….

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Descriptions fail us: Music, Noise or What?

(staff. St. Croix, April 19, 2024) UVI’s music professor, Austin Oting Har is an oxymoron. By day, in the music classroom on the STT campus, a quiet, reserved, small-framed young man quietly provides instructions to a group of attentive students….

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