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(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. But after 5:00pm, on Friday, after work and preparations for an uneventful evening are interrupted …
Rhetorical Expressions of A Life Long-Lived: Mrs. Sarah Rebeccah Rhymer Richardson contributors: William Steger, Jadah Jarvis, Nico Thomas, Devon Pelle, Felisha Felix, Nathan Carroll and Cheryl Hendricks-Thomas Centenarian matriarch, and the last of nine siblings to survive, Mrs. Sarah Rebeccah (“Sal”) Rhymer Richardson lived 12 days past her 102nd birthday. Born in Tortola British Virgin Islands, …
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, February 28, 2024 – The University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) Lady Buccaneer basketball team closed out its 2023-2024 season with a 95-47 loss to the Lady Bulldogs of Tougaloo College in the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (GCAC) 2024 Hope Credit Union Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championship at Birthright Alumni Hall in Tuscaloosa, …
Buccaneers Surrender Late Lead in Loss to Wiley ST.THOMAS, VI (February 2, 2024) – The University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) Men’s basketball team surrendered the lead late to the Wildcats of Wiley University in a 62-57 loss Thursday night at the Elridge Blake Sports and Fitness Center. In a matchup that was a tale …
parts of this article are reprinted w/permission. Information has been cross-checked and referenced to ensure accuracy. Salam Awad Since October 7th and the increased violence against Palestinians, it’s important to reorient ourselves in the longstanding history of Palestinians and Black Americans being in solidarity with each other throughout our various struggles over the last decades. …
Welcome 2024 UVI Community by Shuggah Rosenbloom The University of the Virgin Islands is excited to welcome back its students, staff, and faculty for the new year 2024. We are moving forward with viral tenacity after a challenging 2023 due to the staggering COVID-19 pandemic and other losses and setbacks. Putting those things behind us, …
Easy Like Sunday Morning by Felisha Felix, managing editor (Christiansted, December 10, 2023). The rain pummeled and the seas swayed in the Christainsted Harbour this cloudy Sunday afternoon but that couldn’t take the smiles off of bright faces. Passengers onboard the schooner Denis Sullivan seemed straight out of a scene of “Pirates of the …
Students of the University of the Virgin Islands Association of Black Journalists wish you, your family and friends a wonderful holiday season. Blessed Bodhi, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Blessed Kwanzaa and Happy New Year.