Toure Show

Original Air Date: Dec 18, 2019  Original Title: Toure Show Ep 104: Yvette Nicole Brown: I Am Sunshine  Yvette Nicole Brown makes me happy every time I see her onscreen. She’s a ray of sunshine. That’s probably why she made it out of poverty in Cleveland and into a long, steady acting career. She was on Community, she was in Avengers: Endgame, she’s done movies, sitcoms, kids shows, all kinds of t...

Nicole Ari Parker is one of the new stars of HBO’s And Just Like That and she’s been a friend of mine forever so this is a great conversation. She’s a an amazing actress and an awesome person and she’s on one of the biggest shows in TV. We talk about doing this legendary show and why she ate that french fry in the first ep, who LTW really is, and what it’s like to work on this show and be a mom an...

Touré Show Ep - 42: I Am Fashion Original Air Date: August 15, 2018  My friend Andre Leon Talley passed away this week. He was a fashion world icon who rose from nothing to become a major player and tastemaker. He’s brilliant, witty, funny, and a lot of fun to be around and all of that comes out in this epic conversation.  Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...

Snoop aka Felicia Pearson is a Baltimore legend, a hustler who became a star on The Wire and is now an actor. She’s had a crazy life and we get into lots of her wildest stories and what makes her tick. Amazing conversation.  Toure Show Episode 306 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Coving...

Toure Show Ep 168: James Mtume–I Am Music Original Air Date: August 21, 2020 The legendary James Mtume passed away recently so let’s throwback to our 2021 convo with the musician who played with Miles Davis and made “Juicy Fruit” which became the basis for Biggie’s “Juicy.” He’s got all kinds of stories about his incredible life in music. He will be missed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

Hrishikesh Hirway is the man behind the amazing podcast and TV show Song Exploder and he’s a musician and an all around amazing person with an awesome sounding voice. He’s got a new song out called Between Here And There featuring Yo-Yo Ma. Check it out here:  https://ffm.to/betweenthereandhere Toure Show Episode 305 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell C...

Original Air Date: March 10, 2021 Original Title: Toure Show Ep 225 - I'm in the House Maxine Waters is one of the most powerful and charismatic people in Congress. But how do you get important things passed when Republicans want to obstruct everything? We dig into how she fights and the legislation she cares most about. This is a throwback to our interview from early 2021. Instagram @toureshow. T...

Armand Hammer is a legendary underground hiphop duo that’s been rocking the mic for years. They’re brilliant and their rhyming is incredible and it was an honor to talk to two amazing veteran MCs about music. Toure Show Episode 304 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Ka...

Original Air Date: 2/2/2018 Original Title: Touré Show Ep 12: Black Thought-How To MC Black Thought is one of the greatest MCs of all time. How'd he become such a monstrous talent? What are his favorite words? What makes Thought who he is? I dig into all of that and more in this 2018 interview.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpo...

Doug Lyons is a great young Broadway playwright as well as an actor, writer, director, and composer. He loves creating stories that will illuminate the lives of Black queer people and I love talking to him about Broadway, acting, writing, and how he wants to tell great stories about gay people. Toure Show Episode 303 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell C...

Touré Show Ep - 159: I Save People Original Air Date: July 22, 2020 Iyanla Vanzant is one of the most interesting guests I’ve ever had. In this talk she deeply analyzes the world, herself, me, everything. She’s a fountain of wisdom. I am usually skeptical of spiritual guru types but this woman is doing the work of saving people. And this conversation shows me how deeply she thinks and cares about...

Zakiya Dalila Harris is the best-selling novelist who wrote The Other Black Girl, a book that took the publishing industry by storm. I love talking to writers about writing and their process and the way to make a book explode. Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 302 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Ph...

Original Air Date: September 2, 2020 Original Title: Touré Show Ep 171: I'm A Writer Isabel Wilkerson is one of the great writers of her generation. The author of The Warmth Of Other Suns and Caste is creating narrative non-fiction that explains Black America with a depth and precision rarely seen. I love her research, I love her way of explaining things, and I love her writing style so we’re thro...

Michael Eric Dyson is a brilliant public intellectual and a great friend. I love talking with him because he’s genius and because he loves Blackness so deeply. Here we dive into some of the messages in his new book Entertaining Race where he talks about the history of Black Americans being entertainers on every level. We are performative on a celebrity level from music to screen to sports, but we...

Wendy Raquel Robinson is a star on The Game one of the longest-running shows on TV! We talk acting, affirmations, and how it is she’s managed to have such a long career. Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 300 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Kar...

Greg Tate passed away this week so I’m throwing back to an episode we did in 2020 where we talk about his career, Blackness, and his time interviewing Sade.  Toure Show Episode 138 Original Air Date: May 8, 2020 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more...

Tananarive Due understands horror. She’s written it, she’s studied it, she teaches about it at UCLA in a class that has Jordan Peele come by to explain his perspective. There’s something unique about Black horror films like Get Out or Candyman—they’re not usually just a madman going around killing. There’s usually some political angle that relates to the challenge of being Black in America. Tanana...

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis make up one of the great production teams of the modern era—they started with Prince, they helped make Janet Jackson a superstar, and much more. I’ve wanted to talk to them for a long time. Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 298 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers...

Touré Show Ep 43: Tiffany Haddish-I Am Winning Original Air Date: August 22, 2018 Tiffany Haddish is a Hollywood Superstar and she overcame so much to get there, from a horrific childhood to homelessness as an adult. She's a success now because she thought all of what's happening to her into existence. The power of her mind is so inspiring Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Learn more about you...

Rémy Ngamije is the author of the great new novel The Eternal Audience of One and he Zoomed from Namibia to talk about his book and writing and the political struggles of modern Africans. It’s an amazing conversation. Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 297 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographe...

Original Air Date: February 19, 2020 Original Title: Touré Show Ep 115: Who Killed Malcolm X  Now that two men have been exonerated in the murder of Malcolm X, who killed him? Well there’s a Netflix doc that has an answer: “Who Killed Malcolm X” tells us the name of the man who pulled the trigger of the sawed-off shotgun that killed Malcolm, and which Newark mosque he was from. I talk with the dir...

Alicia Garza. One of the founders of Black Lives Matter and Black Futures Lab. Organizer. Revolutionary. Author. Phenomenal woman. It was an honor to talk with her. Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 296 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Boo...

Toure Show Ep 107: Nicole Hannah-Jones: I Live In A Slaveocracy Original Air Date: January 8, 2020 Nikole Hannah Jones is the creator of the amazing 1619 project which explains how America is still impacted by the legacy of slavery. We are, today, in a slaveocracy. Nikole is a verified genius, the recipient of a MacArthur grant, and I can feel her genius when I speak to her. She is a toweringly in...

Yvonne Orji is a fantastic actress, an hysterical comedian, and someone who has a really close relationship with God. She listens when He tells her what to do. When He said go be a comedian she was like what? No. She tried to ignore that advice but… here we are. Her life story and behind the scenes stories about Insecure are fascinating. Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 295...

Jelani Cobb is a brilliant writer, thinker, professor, academic, NYer staffer, and the author of the new book The Matter of Black Lives. I love his mind so any chance I get to talk to him is a joy. Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 294 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Sh...