Steel Pan and Scorching Sun: ‘Love City Pan Dragons’ Electrify Coral Bay Car Show
Staff (St. John, USVI, Sept. 2025). The Coral Bay Car Show roared to life with gleaming chrome, the scent of local barbecue, and the unmistakable pulse of steel pan music echoing through the hills. Under a relentless Caribbean sun that…
2025 UVI leadership Awards
UVI staff Congratulations to the following comm majors/minors for outstanding achievements this academic year: Felicia Felix– Outstanding Performance on Comunication Shugga D. Rosenbloom Excellence in InternaltionalJournalism Coverage; Communication Ambassador for Human/Civil Rights Jadynn Sibilly- Theatre Award and Kwaniqua Monsanto- Miss…
Theatre Review
A Witty Whodunit: Murder at Regent Manor Delivers Laughs and Suspense By Maliah LaCour The University of the Virgin Islands Drama Club recently brought mystery, mayhem, and lots of laughs to the stage with their spring production of Murder at…
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….
Student Spotlight – UVIABJ President Michael Bell
UVI shines a spotlight on University Communications Major Michael Bell. Michael is from St. Croix and joined UVI in 2019 as a student in the Summer Bridge program which prepares high school graduates for the expectations of college. Since then,…
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…
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…
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…