Who is Todd Steven Burroughs?
Todd Steven Burroughs is a journalist, historian and popular culture geek. He believes this.
Burroughs, a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism, is a lifelong student of the history of Black media. He is one of four primary authors of the book Civil Rights Chronicle (Legacy Publishing/Publications International), and a contributor to several other books, including “Race And Resistance: African-Americans in the Twenty-First Century” (South End Press), “Putting The Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching” (Teaching for Change and PRRAC), “The Fifties Chronicle” (Legacy/Publishing/Publications International), and the “Ethnic Media In America” scholary anthology series (Kendall/Hunt). He is writing a journalistic biography of Death Row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal.
He has written for magazines such as The Source, ColorLines, Black Issues Book Review, Clamor and The Crisis, websites such as Africana.com (now known as AOLBlackVoices.com) , newspapers such as The New York Amsterdam News and The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger, and for wire services such as The NNPA News Service, Capital News Service (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 newspaper chain in 1985.
Burroughs, 40, is a former National Correspondent and News Editor of the NNPA News Service (nnpa.org; BlackPressUSA.com). His media criticism column, “Drums In The Global Village,” was syndicated to about 200 Black newspapers for much of the 1990s. A separate version of the column was published on The Black World Today (tbwt.org), a Black Internet news site, in 1999. This blog is a continuation of that column.