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 another historic ‘first.’ The student organization proudly reports that former Vice President Shugga Rosenbloom, now …

STX Students Lack Basic Needs

by Felicia Felix, contributing reporter/photographer (STX, September 22, 2023). CHS and SCEC High School students joined in protest against inhumane, unfit school campus conditions and voice demands to DOE CHS and SCEC High School students joined in protest against inhumane, unfit school campus conditions and voice demands to DOE. Photo credit: F. FelixAfter more than …

SPEAKOUT: “What advice would you give someone going into their first year of College”

by Angelique Lettsome-Samuel, contributing writer (STT, September 18, 2023) “The most important advice I would offer to a student who would like to attend UVI is- enjoy the luxury of being a part of a small and loving community. Although UVI is smaller than most HBCU’s, this HBCU is unique because they’re big on support. …

UVI Students Serve as HBCU-Africa Correspondents Corps Student Reporters

Gimel Pinto and Kyra Edwards, communication major and minor, respectively, were selected from a host of undergraduates across the nation to serve as student reporters for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)-Africa Correspondents Corps (HBCU-ACC). The new initiative aims to provide student journalists and political scientists attending HBCUs with professional development exposure and experience beneficial to …

2022 Journalism Summit: Time Capsule-Then and Now

(STX-December 10, 2022, staff). Local media joined a group of national and international guests invited by students of the University of the Virgin Islands Association of Black Journalists (UVIABJ) a successful virtual series of lectures, held last month via virtual format.  The 2022 UVIABJ Journalism summit, held its second two-day conference in an effort to …

Three Times a Charm: 3rd UVI Student Participates in HBCU White House Press Briefing

  UVIABJ staff/prUVI-January 25, 2022. A communication major at the University of the Virgin Islands has become the third student this academic school year to be selected to participate in the historic White House Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Journalism Press Briefings. The events are part of a White House initiative to strategically position young …