Todd Steven Burroughs is a journalist,
historian and popular culture geek. He
believes
[this](https://drumsintheglobalvillage.com/2014/01/10/asante-sana-amiri-baraka-2-of-3/).
A Ph.D. in Communication from the
University of Maryland’s Philip
Merrill College of Journalism, he is a
lifelong student of the history of
Black media. He is the author of
*[Warrior Princess: A People’s
Biography of Ida B. Wells
](https://www.amazon.com/Warrior-Princess-Peoples-Biography-Wells/dp/1937306607/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=)*and
*[Marvel’s Black Panther, A Comic Book
Biography, From Stan Lee to Ta-Nehisi
Coates](https://www.amazon.com/Marvels-Black-Panther-Biography-Ta-Nehisi/dp/193730664X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1521482094&sr=8-1&keywords=marvel%27s+black+panther+comic+book+biography),*
both published by [Diasporic Africa
Press.](https://dafricapress.com/) His
audiobook, *[Son-Shine On Cracked
Sidewalks,](http://imixwhatilike.org/2014/06/30/sonshineoncrackedsidewalks/)*
is about the 2014 Newark, N.J. mayoral
election. He is a co-author with Herb
Boyd of the book *[Civil Rights:
Yesterday and
Today](http://www.amazon.com/Civil-Rights-Yesterday-Today-Herb/dp/1450810306/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297948869&sr=1-1)*,
and one of four primary authors of the
book *[Civil Rights
Chronicle](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0785349243/103-9352499-8007813?v=glance&n=283155)*,
both published by Legacy
Publishing/Publications International.
He is the co-editor with Dr. Jared
Ball, full professor at Morgan State
University’s Africana Studies
Department, of the book *[A Lie of
Reinvention: Correcting Manning
Marable’s Malcolm
X](http://www.amazon.com/Lie-Reinvention-Correcting-Manning-Marables/dp/1574780492/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1331818236&sr=8-1)*,
published by Black Classic Press. He
is a contributor to several other
books, including *[Race And
Resistance: African-Americans in the
Twenty-First
Century](http://amazon.com/gp/product/0896086526/103-9352499-8007813?v=glance&n=283155)*
(South End Press), *[Putting The
Movement Back Into Civil Rights
Teaching](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1878554182/sr=1-1/qid=1153872722/ref=sr_1_1/103-9352499-8007813?ie=UTF8&s=books)*
(Teaching for Change and
PRRAC), *[The Fifties
Chronicle](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1412711878/103-9352499-8007813?v=glance&n=283155)*
(Legacy/Publishing/Publications
International), and the *[Ethnic Media
In
America](http://amazon.com/gp/product/0757509185/sr=1-1/qid=1153843686/ref=sr_1_1/103-9352499-8007813?ie=UTF8&s=books)*
scholarly anthology series
(Kendall/Hunt). He is writing a book
about
*[Freedomways](http://www.blackpast.org/aah/freedomways-1961-1985)*[
magazine](http://www.blackpast.org/aah/freedomways-1961-1985)
and hopes to one day write a monograph
on WABC-TV’s [Gil
Noble](http://blackagendareport.com/content/black-was-color-his-tv-tube-asante-sana-gil-noble-and-wabc-tv%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9C-it-is%E2%80%9D)
and [his television program,
](http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Gil+Noble+Like+It+IS&oq=Gil+Noble+Like+It+IS&gs_l=youtube.4..35i39l2j0.2727.5947.0.6288.20.20.0.0.0.0.113.1300.18j2.20.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.HGyAyqfAcrs)*[Like
It
Is](http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Gil+Noble+Like+It+IS&oq=Gil+Noble+Like+It+IS&gs_l=youtube.4..35i39l2j0.2727.5947.0.6288.20.20.0.0.0.0.113.1300.18j2.20.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.HGyAyqfAcrs)*.
In 2020 he just finished a full draft
of *Talking Drums and Raised Fists:
[Mumia
Abu-Jamal,](https://owd.tcnj.edu/~kpearson/Mumia/index.htm)
A Biography Of A Voice*, and published
in 2022 *[The Trials of Mumia
Abu-Jamal: A Biography in 25
Voices,](https://dafricapress.com/The-Trials-of-Mumia-Abu-Jamal-A-Biography-in-25-Voices-p471101280)*
a collective biography of the
imprisoned journalist. He has written
for magazines such as *[The
Source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Source_(magazine))*, *[ColorLines](http://www.colorlines.com/)*, *Black
Issues Book Review* and *[The
Crisis](http://www.thecrisismagazine.com/)*,
websites such as *[The
Root](https://www.theroot.com/search?blogId=1635821517&q=Todd%20Steven%20Burroughs%20×tamp=1596981569173)*, *[NewsOne.com](http://newsone.com/)*, *[Ebony](http://www.ebony.com/search/Todd+Steven+Burroughs#axzz2gVoZmfOS)*[.com](http://www.ebony.com/search/Todd+Steven+Burroughs#axzz2gVoZmfOS) and *[BlackAmericaWeb.com](http://www.blackamericaweb.com/)*,
newspapers such as *[The New York
Amsterdam
News](http://www.amsterdamnews.org/news/default.asp)* and *The* (Newark,
N.J.) *Star-Ledger*, and for wire
services such as [The NNPA News
Service](http://www.nnpa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=44), [Capital
News
Service](http://www.merrill.umd.edu/cns) (of
the University of Maryland’s Philip
Merrill College of Journalism) and the
Knight-Ridder Wire. He began his
career as a correspondent for The New
Jersey edition of *[The
Afro-American](http://www.afro.com/)*
newspaper chain in 1985. He currently
writes for
*[imixwhatilike.org](https://imixwhatilike.org/),*
Ball’s long-running multimedia
website, and is thinking about writing
longform journalism for
*[Medium.com](https://medium.com/)*.