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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…

What’s a Birthday without Ice Cream? 🍦

University of Virgin Islands host an Ice cream social to celebrate UVI’s 63rd birthday. Students come together to enjoy a sweet treat from a local Ice cream truck known as “On Thin Ice” and music.

Jalil Langston and Amyaoa’ah Phillips Earn 56 Points Combined

Jalil Langston with 24 points and Amyaoa’ah Phillips with 32 points lead their team to a win with 56 Points Combined against Kuyper College. 

The Comm Unit at UVI is on The White House Guest List

(STX, May 5, 2023). A special invitation from the Biden-Harris administration was extended to The University of the Virgin Islands Association of Black Journalists (UVIABJ), and President Michael Bell readily accepted on behalf of the group. With only a 72-hour…

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,…

UVIABJ: Changing the Game

  UVIABJ Members Represent the University at Top Journalism Conference: Changing the Game/Breaking the Barriers by Shugga Rosenblum (STT. August 24, 2022). -UVI’s Student Organization of the Year (2022), the UVI Association of Black Journalists (UVIABJ) received warm and enthusiastic…

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…