Todd S Burroughs
Public Enemy posted the following on Youtube: This is a polite respect call to the troops , to continue to inspire but reflect the people better. OTIS Redding was a humble country man from Macon Georgia who bought a jet to work in, not flash. He perished in that plane. Heres to hoping that [...]
Man, we need ALL of this show, archived, ONLINE. Interesting comments about Malcolm and Cleaver starting at about 3:45! Sammy was from Harlem. Below is a “Like It Is” documentary from 1978 (!) about Harlem.
I wrote the following “Drums” column back in 1996, when I was a doctoral student and not yet a Three Name Negro. It was syndicated by the NNPA News Service to approximately 200 Black newspapers nationwide. I now know that “The Bottle” might have been his “song of celebration” because it was his biggest [...]
I wrote this “Drums” column in 1999, when I was a Ph.D. candidate who occasionally posted something on The Black World Today website, a now- defunct Black web pioneer. DRUMS IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE A Column on Media, Race and Culture by Todd Burroughs AN ‘AUTOBIOGRAPHY’ OF GIL SCOTT-HERON I want to make this [...]
*SIGH*. MAY 17th UPDATE: Ladies and Gentlemen, Part One of Jon Stewart vs. Bill O’Reilly. Part Two is below.
…….my nephew, Andrew Burroughs, Jr., whose sci-fi thriller “Algeny” has made No. 5 of Smooth magazine’s top five indy Black films you should be watching, …..Free Speech TV being covered by The Denver Post, and, finally to my friend and colleague Ericka Blount-Danois, who wrote this story about this groundbreaking show.
……I was very sorry to hear of your illness on WPFW, where I first discovered you thanks to your “Wednesday Morning Jazz: Freedom Sounds with Brother Hodari.” I had rarely heard such combination of spiritual consciousness (music) and talk on the radio. And now I mourn as you have now joined The Realm of the [...]