I am Todd Steven Burroughs, a journalist, scholar and pop culture geek with more than 30 years in mass media. I’ve written for magazines such as The Source, ColorLines, Black Issues Book Review and The Crisis, and for websites like The Root and Ebony.com, and for newspapers including The New York Amsterdam News and The Newark Star-Ledger. I’ve contributed to wire services such as NNPA News Service, Capital News Service (University of Maryland) and Knight Ridder Wire. I began my career as a correspondent for The New Jersey edition of The Afro-American in 1985. My column "Drums in the Global Village" was syndicated to about 200 Black newspapers through the 1990s. My blog drumsintheglobalvillage.com carries on that work. I earned a Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of Maryland and have taught at Howard University and Morgan State University. I’m a lifelong student of Black media history and 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 (Diasporic Africa Press). I’ve co-edited A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X with Jared A. Ball, and co-authored Civil Rights: Yesterday and Today with Herb Boyd, as well as Civil Rights Chronicle. I’ve drafted Talking Drums and Raised Fists: Mumia Abu-Jamal, A Biography of a Voice, and compiled The Trials of Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Biography in 25 Voices. I’m currently writing a book on Freedomways magazine and a monograph on Gil Noble and his Like It Is program for WABC-TV.…I am Todd Steven Burroughs, a journalist, scholar and pop culture geek with more than 30 years in mass media. I’ve written for magazines such as The Source, ColorLines, Black Issues Book Review and The Crisis, and for websites like The Root and Ebony.com, and for newspapers including The New York Amsterdam News and The Newark Star-Ledger. I’ve contributed to wire services such as NNPA News Service, Capital News Service (University of Maryland) and Knight Ridder Wire. I began my career as a correspondent for The New Jersey edition of The Afro-American in 1985. My column "Drums in the Global Village" was syndicated to about 200 Black newspapers through the 1990s. My blog drumsintheglobalvillage.com carries on that work. I earned a Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of Maryland and have taught at Howard University and Morgan State University. I’m a lifelong student of Black media history and 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 (Diasporic Africa Press). I’ve co-edited A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X with Jared A. Ball, and co-authored Civil Rights: Yesterday and Today with Herb Boyd, as well as Civil Rights Chronicle. I’ve drafted Talking Drums and Raised Fists: Mumia Abu-Jamal, A Biography of a Voice, and compiled The Trials of Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Biography in 25 Voices. I’m currently writing a book on Freedomways magazine and a monograph on Gil Noble and his Like It Is program for WABC-TV.WWWW…