Dominic Carter
Dominic Carter Speaker Biography
Dominic Carter is a TV Political Commentator for Verizon FiOS TV, and has been in the Journalism Business for over 25 years. As a journalist, Dominic Carter believes you are to treat people in the same way that you wish to be treated. Dominic Carter currently lives in New York and decided to go into the television business to be a “voice for the voiceless.” He also is a contributing writer for the Huffington Post. Recently, he covered the 2016 presidential election. His 2008 interview with President-elect Donald Trump, in which Trump praised Hilary Clinton, went viral at the end of the campaign.
Dominic got his Master’s Degree in Broadcast Journalism at Syracuse University. In addition, he received an honorary Ph.D degree from the City University of New York. He started his career in radio, field reporting for WLIB/WBLS then went onto TV reporting 6 years later. Dominic still appears on WABC radio today. He is also proud to be part of the annual “Inner Circle,” a charity organization of NY political reporters. He is also a part of the Screen Actors Guild and has appeared in the movie “Inside Man,” directed by Spike Lee.
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Done from keeping his life-long secrets from the world, Dominic Carter, considered by many as one of the best political television reporters in New York, shares his extraordinary, gut-wrenching story of abuse at the hands of his mother in No Momma’s Boy. Soon after his mother’s death, Dominic Carter acquires her psychiatric records to find out more about the magnitude of her struggles. He always knew she was plagued by mental illness, but because of their limited relationship, he never truly understood its severity.
In addition to revealing that she was a paranoid schizophrenic, the records contain very surprising secrets from his past of which he has little to know recollection. Dominic Carter learns the abominable specifics of how his mother tried to strangle him to death when he was just an infant and her many suicide attempts. As he uncovers these appalling details, Carter awakens memories of unspeakable acts that he suffered at her hands. From a childhood of sexual and physical abuse to a meaningful career attending social events at the White House and interviewing Nelson Mandela, No Momma’s Boy tells the true story of Carter’s tremendous highs and lows and how he endured to become the successful journalist that he is today.
