Author: Todd Steven Burroughs
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In A 21st-Century Classic Black Radical Autobiography, Soldier of Misfortune Russell “Maroon” Shoatz Provides a Hardcore How-To Manual
BOOK REVIEW: The Last, Lost Samurai I Am Maroon: The True Story of an American Political Prisoner. Russell “Maroon” Shoatz with Kanya…
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Book Review: The Liberty Bell vs. Clang the Conqueror
On A Move: Philadelphia’s Notorious Bombing and a Native Son’s Lifelong Battle for Justice. Mike Africa Jr. with D. Watkins. New York: Mariner…
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Broadcaster & Scholar Dr. Jared Ball Named Among 10 Casey 2022 Freedom Scholars
*Originally published by The Black World Media Network (BWMN)—Dr. Jared Ball, an increasingly important activist in Black radical and Pan-Africanist circles, has…
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Book Review: The New ‘Double Consciousness?’ New Books Explore Technology’s Pluses and Minuses In Struggle
The Quiet Before: On The Unexpected Origins Of Radical Ideas. Gal Beckerman. New York: Crown. 271 pp. $28.99. Seen and Unseen: Technology,…
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A THANK-YOU CARD TO ABENA WALKER AND ASKIA MUHAMMAD (A Book Review In Poem Form)
ASKIA! ABENA! Saw both at separate times while hawking T’ChallaA marketing MarvelThe Black Cat unifying the white movie theater and Black lecture…
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Why I Wrote “THE INVISIBLE SHADOW AND THE HIGH-TOP FADE: The Mortal Cells of America’s Political Prisoners, Freedom’s Untouchables,” A Book-Length Essay
Shadow/Fade is a book-length essay about the 2022 meaning of our aging political prisoners. It’s a personal, polemical work with literary pretensions…
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“THE INVISIBLE SHADOW AND THE HIGH-TOP FADE: The Mortal Cells of America’s Political Prisoners, Freedom’s Untouchables,” A Book-Length Essay
– BLACK POWER MEDIA AND IMIXWHATILIKE.ORG PRESENT AN AFRICAN HERITAGE MONTH SPECIAL – By Todd Steven Burroughs (© Main text copyright 2019,…
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RUSSELL “MAROON” SHOATZ (1943-2021) SPEAKS: “THE BLACK LIBERATION STRUGGLE IN PHILADELPHIA”—A 2006 Q+A INTERVIEW WITH COMRADE SOBUKWE AND MARCUS SCHELL (BOOK EXCERPT)
(It was announced today that Russell “Maroon” Shoatz has joined The Realm of the Ancestors. This Q+A interview was conducted in 2006…
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Book Review: Quiet Sounds Better if You Have Nothing Deep to Say: Black Mainstream Journalism Only Circles the George Floyd/Breonna Taylor Square
Curtis Bunn, Michael H. Cottman, Patrice Gaines, Nick Charles, Keith Harrison. Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America.…
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Book Review: Words Covered In Ivy, Not Yet In Blood
https://www.youtube.com/embed/oz87K9l3y2s Ngugi Wa Thiong’o. Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening. New York/London: The New Press, 238 pp. $16.95. Reviewed…
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Book Review: The Prologue, The Prototype, The O.G. Hater
https://www.youtube.com/embed/3_awAF4GjhoHubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 (Vol. 1, published in 2009). Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927 (Vol. 2, published in…
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BOOK REVIEW: “Same Old Devil”: In Time of National Turmoil, Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria Recall A Nation Devoid of Justice
Murder, Incorporated: Empire, Genocide, Manifest Destiny. Book Three: Perfecting Tyranny. By Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria. Foreword by Angela Y. Davis. San…
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“Fire In The Hole: Why Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz Is Important To Creative Revolutionaries” by Fred Ho
Watch this video on YouTube It was announced Sunday night that Russell “Maroon” Shoatz, a political prisoner in the tradition of George…
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BOOK REVIEW: MALCOLM THE TENTH? MORE LIKE 7 3/8ths: THE POWERFUL PAYNE PAINFULLY PETERS OUT BEFORE PUNTING
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X. Les Payne and Tamara Payne. New York: Liverlight. 537 pp., $35. Reviewed by…
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Book Review: The Mouthpiece: Nkechi Taifa Bares Her Soul, Scars and Hopes
Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest For Justice. Nkechi Taifa. Foreword by Greg Carr. Washington, D.C.: House of Songhay II., 379…
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Book Review: The Commuter: Eddie Glaude Attempts to Confront James Baldwin’s Truths
Glaude sits back from a safe distance on our MSNBC screens, away from Baldwin’s edginess while constantly acknowledging it. Begin Again: James…
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Fantasies vs. Nightmares, Prison Abolition vs. Medical Genocide: As The “Free Mumia” Movement Prepares To Celebrate His Birthday, A Cruel, Late April Fool’s Joke About Abu-Jamal Possibly Having COVID-19 Symptoms Backfires
The harassment of radical senior citizen Mumia Abu-Jamal continues, even during a pandemic. It’s not enough that’s he’s been in jail for…
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The Revolution On Your Momma’s Coffee Table: Lerone Bennett Jr., Black Power, Pan-Africanism and the Schizophrenia of Ebony Magazine, 1966-1976
It’s September 1966, and the regular reader of Ebony gets the sinking feeling that its jali, Lerone Bennett Jr., is a little…
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BREAKING (NON-) NEWS: Attention, Mumia! No Reading (About the Young Lords Party) Allowed!
Why could Mumia Abu-Jamal receive books on Death Row in the 1980s, 1990s and 00s but is severely restricted in his ability…
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Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Redux
As he completes his magnum opus trilogy on the American empire, Abu-Jamal revisits two of his books Commentary by Todd Steven Burroughs…