Black Weblog Award Nominee: Best Political or News Blog
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 at 04:14PM Best Political or News Blog
Dominion of New York-Dominion of New York is an 11-month-old online magazine that targets politically progressive urban communities. We produce blogging and original reporting about New York City, the U.S., and the world. And we excel at covering the news.
Our work has been linked to and cited by The Atlantic, the Guardian, Forbes.com, Mother Jones, TheRoot.com, Huffington Post BlackVoices and thousands more. Our writers have appeared on several radio shows in New York City.
We are independently-owned, multi-author, and currently publish 3 to 4 posts per day. Our first traffic breakthrough came in December 2011, when we hit 55,000 unique visitors in 30-days. We hit our peak traffic in March -- 66,000 unique visitors in 30-days.
Polite On Society-Polite On Society is a site of political analysis and social commentary from the African-American perspective. This site has been in existence for three years, and is read by many social media leaders and academics. The site won the award for Best Black Blog of 2011 from the Historical Black Press Foundation. POS continues to be a source of information for Black people interested in politics, history, and literature.
Electronic Village-80% of success in any enterprise is 'simply showing up'. The Electronic Village shows up every day with its unique and uplifting outlook on news and politics. This is a blog that understands that a great deal of information impacting on the Black community is never shown on the mainstream media. This blog does it's best to fill some of that gap each and every day.
Angry Black Lady Chronicles-Angry Black Lady Chronicles consistently gets it right on point on the political and cultural issues of the day. Imani provides well researched and documented backup for the topics. Impresssive coverage on all topics.
KimoraCochran.com-KimoraCochran.com should win this category because there is no other crime news blogs that cover both celebrities' brushes with the law, bizarre crime stories along with a dose of politics!Not to mention, KimoraCochran.com was shown on VH1's Basketball Wives LA episode six, and is updated daily with the latest in America's craziest criminal activity!
This Week in Blackness-This Week in Blackness is a multimedia hub for awesome. With radio, video and blogs covering myriad topics the award winning site continues to entertain and change the conversation.
Reader Comments (1)
The blog "polite on Society" is an eye opener, although my view at times runs counter to it's posts, the back and forth discussions are made intelligently, on point and focused, truly an exhilarating blog.