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About me

Todd Steven Burroughs is a journalist, historian, novelist and popular culture geek. 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 teaches adjunctly at Africana Studies at Seton Hall University and Wayne State University.

Interests: Todd Steven Burroughs is a journalist, historian, novelist and popular culture geek. 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 and Marvel’s Black Panther, A Comic Book Biography, From Stan Lee to Ta-Nehisi Coates, both published by Diasporic Africa Press. His audiobook, Son-Shine On Cracked Sidewalks, 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, and one of four primary authors of the book Civil Rights Chronicle, 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, published by Black Classic Press. He is 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 scholarly anthology series (Kendall/Hunt). He is writing a book about Freedomways magazine and hopes to one day write a monograph on WABC-TV’s Gil Noble and his television program, Like It Is. In 2020 he just finished a full draft of Talking Drums and Raised Fists: Mumia Abu-Jamal, A Biography Of A Voice, and published in 2022 The Trials of Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Biography in 25 Voices, a collective biography of the imprisoned journalist.