Introducing Alayah Phipps, Contestant #4 for the 71st Annual Miss St. Croix Festival Queen Pageant! Alayah Phipps was born in Silver Spring, Maryland, and raised to be a product of two cultures, African Caribbean and African American. Alayah is an Office Manager at Music in Motion School of Higher Dance Education where she learned to appreciate other dance genres and is currently enrolled in the Master of Public Administration graduate studies program at DSU. Her platform is, “It begins with me

What a classic of a movie 🍿 In this Higher Learning (1995), scene 🎬 they tell you it’s all about “playing the game” and the system. It carries a deep message about survival, adaptation, and systemic oppression. The “Game” is Society’s System – Professor Phipps is explaining that the world operates on a system—one built on rules, structures, and power dynamics. To succeed, one must learn how the system works and use it to their advantage. The deeper conflict in this scene is whether to play the