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  • What’s a Birthday without Ice Cream? 🍦

    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.

  • SAY HER NAME: LACOUR

    SAY HER NAME: LACOUR

    LACOUR is on FIRE as she literally jumps over Wiley basketball rival during the Lady Bucs first win of the season. UVI Lady Buc’s First win of the season MA- LAY-AH: Say Her Name! Maliah Lacour is on Fire! The senior guard scored a season-high 27 points in a dominant performance on her senior night….

  • UPCLOSE and PERSONAL-UVI adds “Cool” new leadership

    UPCLOSE and PERSONAL-UVI adds “Cool” new leadership

    UVI Student Journalists Secure Exclusive Interview With University President by Maliah LaCour ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands, Jan 2025— On a bright and bustling fall afternoon in 2024, three young reporters hurried into the administration building on the Orville E. Sheen campus at the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI). Members of the UVI Association…

  • What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? A Contemporary Analysis

    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…

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

    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…

  • The littlest SANTA:  KOHL SEALEY leads Xmas Toy Giveaway, Again

    The littlest SANTA: KOHL SEALEY leads Xmas Toy Giveaway, Again

    Littlest SANTA UVIVOICE 2.0 staff (Christiansted, USVI). For the second year in a row, the University of the Virgin Islands Association of Black Journalists Xmas Toys Giveaway was led by one of the youngest Virgin Islander. 4-year-old Kohl Sealey, resident of St. Croix eagerly gathered up some of his favorite toys and filled two boxes…

  • Key Questions Receive Honest Answers from The Black News Channel

    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…