Toure Show

Eddie Glaude is one of those brilliant intellectuals who makes the life of the mind seem cool. He’s an MSNBC star, a Princeton professor, and the author of Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own which mines Baldwin’s work for modern lessons. I’m a huge fan of Baldwin’s and a big fan of Glaude’s so this was a real treat. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram @toureshow Tw...

Joy Reid’s ascension to MSNBC's vaunted 7pm weekday time slot makes her one of the few Black women to ever host a prime time news show so we had to dig into the archive and replay our interview from 2018. She digs into how she handles Trump surrogates on TV, how she dealt with getting fired while on the air, and how she survived the death of her mother just before she was set to go to Harvard. She...

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Joe Budden is an MC who retired and became an even bigger force in the culture than he was. We talk about everything from music to how he made it big as a podcaster. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Ep 155 Host & Writer: Toure Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta Covingto...

Dear White People is one of the hottest shows on TV right now and the mind behind it is the brilliant Justin Simien. We do a deep dive into the themes and messages of the show in which I find out that Dear White People, a show I adore, was partly inspired by my 2012 book “Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness, What It Means To Be Black Now.” This originally aired in April. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram...

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Bakari Sellers is one of the best political analysts out right now partly because he’s brilliant and partly he’s been inside the process—he was in the South Carolina House of Representatives. That gives him an insight that many others in cable news lack. He’s a longtime CNN analyst and now the author of My Vanishing Country about the forgotten Black people of the South. Fascinating conversation. P...

As the Black Lives Matter movement explodes in popularity, it’s a good time to revisit my 2018 interview with Patrisse Cullors, one of the founders of BLM. She talks about her memoir, When They Call You A Terrorist, and how the police traumatized her as a child. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about...

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Eric Andre is crazy. He’s an amazing absurdist comedian who’s got a crazy show on Adult Swim, the Eric Andre Show, an insane new standup on Netflix, Legalize Everything, and a bananas prank movie coming up on Netflix called Bad Trip. The guy is hilarious and brilliant and this convo is crazy. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Ep 151 Host & Writer: Toure Senior P...

Tamika Mallory is an activist-warrior who’s been powerful in the fight to get justice for George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. She’s a fearless, inspiring leader who helped build the Women’s March and who knows her work puts her life on the line. Our 2019 conversation remains as pertinent as ever. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-ou...

This is a Friday Patreon Exclusive! Go to patreon.com/toureshow to hear the whole ep! For $5 a month you get 4 Patreon Exclusives a month! Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.c...

Spike Lee’s new Netflix movie Da 5 Bloods is one of Spike’s best in a while. A really powerful story about four Black Vietnam vets who return to the jungle in hopes of burying their demons. One of the leads is Delroy Lindo, an amazing actor who plays Paul, a Trump supporter with PTSD who’s got a lot to work out. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Ep 149 Host & Wr...

Atlanta’s Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is in the news right now because she’s on the short list of Joe Biden’s VP choices and because she’s taken decisive action in several recent incidents of police violence. She’s a fascinating person who we interviewed in her office in 2019. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Lea...

In a moment where we’re arguing about the future of the police the perfect person to talk to is Dr. Phillip Goff. He’s a PhD, a professor at John Jay, and the head of the Center for Policing Equity. He’s a guy who studies policing and comes in and helps clean up departments. We talk about what’s wrong with American policing and how he thinks we can fix it. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram @touresho...

Either you’re racist or anti-racist. There is no neutral ground. Either you’re working to make a difference or you’re perpetuating the status quo. This is the thesis of Dr. Ibram Kendi’s brilliant book How To Be An Anti-Racist. If you’re looking to put the current moment in context, this is a good conversation to dig into. Originally aired Oct 2019. Twitter @toure. Instagram @toureshow.  See acast...

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DeRay McKesson has been working on combating policing violence for years so he’s the perfect person to talk to right now. He and his team have been working on creating a series of specific, achievable policing reforms that can make a difference. We talk through the reforms that can make change (ban chokeholds!) and the ones that don’t produce change (body cameras) and why he loves Blackness. Patre...

Charlamagne tha God is a radio legend whose recent interview with Joe Biden made headlines. It’s no surprise that the provocateur was able to get Biden to say something newsy. Charlamagne is happy to questions that others are afraid of. We got together back in July of 2018 to talk about his success and how he got there.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about...

This is a Friday Patreon Exclusive! Go to patreon.com/toureshow to hear the whole ep! For $5 a month you get 4 Patreon Exclusives a month! Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.c...

Alan Leeds has all the best stories because he’s had all the best jobs. He was  James Brown’s manager, then Prince’s manager, then’s D’Angelo’s manager, then Chris Rock’s manager. He writes about working with James and having a front row seat for the Godfather’s incredible career in his great new memoir There Was A Time: James Brown, the Chitlin Circuit and Me. I’ve known Alan forever so we talk a...

Andre Leon Talley’s new memoir The Chiffon Trenches has people talking about him anew but my old friend has been a fashion icon for decades because he’s a survivor. He’s been beaten up for being gay. He’s dealt with fashion people being overtly racist. And through it all he became a legend. Conversating with him is a joy. This originally aired in August of 2018. From the archive, ep 42, Toure Show...

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Princess Nokia is an amazing rapper from the streets of New York who put out two albums this year—Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Sucks. We talk about her growing up in abuse and being traumatized, and finding a home in the ballroom scene, and feeling fluid, and feeling powerful, and feeling clairvoyant, and beating up a man in the subway, and more. She’s a truly fascinating person. Patreon...

Cyntoia Brown is the subject of a powerful new Netflix doc Murder To Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story. She was a teenage prostitute who was convicted of murder when she was 15 but years later it became clear that she wasn’t a predator, she was a victim. She did 15 years of a life sentence for murder before her sentence was commuted. Back in October of 2019, a few months after she got out of prison,...