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 …
USVI Olympic Team
What events could we, as Islanders, dominate and bring home gold medals to represent the tenacity and spirit of the Islands?
Calling it out- NFL Foul!
by Karon Reynolds-r Lack of Diversity in NFL Coaching The entertainment and excitement of American football cannot be denied. All of the different aspects of the game such as interceptions, touchdowns, and fumbles make for absolutely great plays and crowd reactions. The National Football …
Key Questions Receive Honest Answers from The Black News Channel
Key Questions Receive Honest Answers from The Black News Channel: Virtual Media Day Hosted for Outstanding Journalism Students from HBCUs by George Francis (STT, USVI-November 8, 2021) Recent social climate changes and shifts in the way news is disseminated about people of color have led to the following questions. Is there a future for Black …
PLEASE BY USVI OFFICIALS TO STOP THE KILLINGS
by Michael Bell “But the chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not Punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.”― W E B Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk: By W. E. B. Du Bois As bloodshed, violence, and unanswered crimes continue to ravage …
“I’m Articulate:” An Intellectual Response to Spoken Word TEDTALK
by Catharine Seabrookes *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 …
Shades of Melanin: COLORISM in the Caribbean
written by Shani Issac Shortly before Hurricane Maria struck us in 2017, I placed an order for a 23andme DNA testing kit. To my surprise, I wound up acquiring it before I thought I would, and so my journey to better understand my racial identity began. It is an inescapable fact that many of our …
@BLM and the Caribbean
by Nicholas Figueroa The death of George Floyd Has sparked brutal riots and protests all over America. The scale of the current fight for the end to racial injustice and the perpetuation of institutionalized racism, has been likened to the Civil rights era. However, America is not the only place in the world that was …