Toure is a columnist for the Daily Beast and the author of the upcoming book Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness? A Look At What It Means To Be Black Now, out September 13th.
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Gay in the NFL
Who will be the gay Jackie Robinson of professional sports?... MORE
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Dave Chappelle's Secret Shows
The comedian has been popping up at "secret" stand-up shows, doing bits about his own crazy history.... MORE
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Upset for the Ages
A tournament full of surprises ended with the biggest one of all—an unknown Argentine, Juan Martin... MORE
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Do Bold Outfits Win Matches?
On Day 11 of the U.S.... MORE
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Lessons of the Beerfest
Thursday’s purely symbolic White House beer summit capped off a week of teachable moments about... MORE
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Skip's Racist Wakeup Call
The arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, the country’s most important black... MORE
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MTV's Jackie Robinson
The Daily Beast’s Touré on a lifetime of listening to Michael, the King of Pop who reigned over... MORE
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Ode to a White Rapper
Asher Roth’s recent success has had many hip-hop devotees terrified that the worst is happening:... MORE
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Spike Shoots, Kobe Scores
Spike Lee talks to The Daily Beast’s Touré about his revelatory new documentary, Kobe Doin’ Work,... MORE
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Rock Meets Rap
Former Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell has made a genre-bending record with Timbaland.... MORE
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A Black Picasso
Ernie Barnes, whose iconic Sugar Shack painting appeared in the credits of Good Times and a Marvin... MORE
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Straight Outta Somalia
New hip-hop sensation K’naan, a Somali refugee, overcame a gun-toting childhood to rap about peace... MORE
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The Thinking Man’s Rapper
In a rare interview, Touré talks with Black Thought—front man for The Roots and the new house MC of... MORE
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Their Awful Night
A potential domestic-abuse saga is entangling pop sensation Rihanna and her R&B-singer boyfriend... MORE
