Todd S Burroughs
It will surprise no one who knows me that it was “Doonesbury” that got me into following the worlds of the White House Press Corps and national politics as a teenager. So I enjoyed chuckling over this whole thing.
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THANKS to The Final Call for this! And THANKS to Malik for forwarding me this!
O-Kay. Well, I guess if a Black man can be Nick Fury, then why not?
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 [...]
We’ll be studying your impact for years and years.
……”Smallville” premiered shortly after 9-11, and is ending its run shortly after Osama bin Laden is killed. Hmm……
…….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 [...]