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Touré is a columnist for The Daily Beast. He's also an NBC contributor and the author of Never Drank the Kool-Aid, Soul City, and The Portable Promised Land. He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, was CNN's first pop culture correspondent, and was the host of MTV2's Spoke N Heard. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times.

Upset for the Ages

Upset for the Ages

A tournament full of surprises ended with the biggest one of all-an unknown Argentine, Juan Martin del Potro, stoppe...

Posted 10:48 AM | Sep 15, 2009
Do Bold Outfits Win Matches

Do Bold Outfits Win Matches?

On Day 11 of the U.S. Open, The Daily Beast's Touré tests his tennis theory-the loud shots and sartorial flai...

Posted 6:52 AM | Sep 11, 2009
Lessons of the Beerfest

Lessons of the Beerfest

Thursday's purely symbolic White House beer summit capped off a week of teachable moments about race and police cond...

Posted 6:31 AM | Jul 31, 2009
Skips Racist Wakeup Call

Skip's Racist Wakeup Call

The arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, the country's most important black academic, in his own hom...

Posted 6:32 AM | Jul 21, 2009