Interview with Kelly Virella of Dominion of New York

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NABJ Digital

By Talia Whyte

There is a growing number of journalists who are leaving traditional media outlets to create and run their own online news sites.  Kelly Virella is one of those enterprising journalists.  She left her job as the deputy editor of City Limits magazine and website last year to start the news organization, Dominion of New York.  I spoke to her recently about life as a journalist turned entrepreneur.

NABJ Digital: What is Dominion of New York and why did you start it up?

Kelly Virella: Dominion of New York is the online magazine of black intellectual swagger. We report about innovative thinkers, artists and leaders. We investigate complex issues and we blog about current events relevant to the global black diaspora from a progressive-to-radical political perspective…

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Focus on Public Transit Justice

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The T Riders Union and other community organizations gathered in front of the Massachusetts State House Jan. 23, 2012 to rally against proposed MBTA fare hikes and service changes. The protesters argue that the changes will greatly affect lower income, elderly and disabled communities already displayed by the recession. (Part of the video is in Spanish with English translation.)

UK Race Relations: Yesterday & Today

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Two white men were found guilty and received life sentences for the murder of Stephen Lawrence, the black teenager stabbed to death by five white youths at a London bus stop in 1993. Nearly two decades on, the verdict may have brought some closure to a case that put a spotlight on racism and criminal justice in the United Kingdom. I was a teenager myself at the time and remember hearing a little about this case, but it wasn’t until I viewed the BBC film The Murder of Stephen Lawrence when I got the whole story of the case and how England is so not “postracial.”

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