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Todd Steven Burroughs
Book Review: The Prologue, The Prototype, The O.G. Hater
03 Feb 2021
Hubert Henry Harrison was a Black intellectual inferno, a warrior in the cause of a race- and class-based politics.
Todd Steven Burroughs
The Revolution on Your Momma’s Coffee Table: Lerone Bennett and the Schizophrenia of Ebony Magazine, from 1966 to 1976
04 Feb 2020
Lerone Bennett’s de-colonized perspective was ultimately drowned out by the same capitalist forces that kept him alive in the first place.
Todd Steven Burroughs
Newark’s Black-Powered Engineer: Kenneth Gibson (1932-2019)
10 Apr 2019
The still-chocolate city bids farewell to its first Black mayor.
Todd Steven Burroughs
Inside Negro Pan-African Intellectual Kingdoms of Shifting Sands
11 Apr 2018
“Pan-Africans appeared on the same pages as Communists.”
Todd Steven Burroughs
Ellis Haizlip and “SOUL!”: The Day the Blues People Created and Shaped “Black Power Public Television”
23 Oct 2013
by Todd Steven Burroughs Once upon a time, from 1968 to 1973, there was a public television show called “Soul!” that had the budget and the courage to present 360 degrees of “uncensored, undiluted…
Todd Steven Burroughs
Echoes Of A Soledad Brother: The White Shadow Now Over Mumia Abu-Jamal
25 Jan 2012
by Todd Steven Burroughs Mumia Abu Jamal is out of death row but consigned to the twilight zone – or purgatory – of administrative custody placement, a status that seems to mean whatever prison…
Todd Steven Burroughs
Black Was The Color of His TV Tube: Asante Sana, Gil Noble and WABC-TV’s “Like It Is”
25 Oct 2011
by Todd Steven Burroughs The nation’s longest-running Black public affairs program, “Like It Is,” is no more, a casualty of host Gil Noble’s disabling stroke. Noble ran the show for 43 years…