Do Bold Outfits Win Matches?
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.
On Day 11 of the U.S. Open, The Daily Beast's Touré tests his tennis theory-the loud shots and sartorial flair always win out-on the del Potro-Cilic quarterfinal.
The Morning After
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Cable covered it like the Battle of Fallujah, writes the Daily Beast's Lloyd Grove, but did it live up to the hype? Plus, Touré and Stanley Crouch weigh in on the beer summit.
Skip's Racist Wakeup Call
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.
The arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, the country's most important black academic, in his own home means America can forget all the post-racial nonsense, The Daily Beast's Touré writes.
MTV's Jackie Robinson
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.
The Daily Beast's Touré on a lifetime of listening to Michael, the King of Pop who reigned over black and white radio stations alike and inspired a generation of musicians.
Ode to a White Rapper
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.
Asher Roth's recent success has had many hip-hop devotees terrified that the worst is happening: the death of black music. But is Roth really so dangerous? Toure investigates.
Spike Shoots, Kobe Scores
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.
Spike Lee talks to The Daily Beast's Touré about his revelatory new documentary, Kobe Doin' Work, following a game in the life of Los Angeles Lakers' superstar Kobe Bryant.
Rock Meets Rap
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.
Former Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell has made a genre-bending record with Timbaland. Touré talks with the grunge icon about battling Trent Reznor and taming his Twitter addiction.
Straight Outta Somalia
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.
New hip-hop sensation K'naan, a Somali refugee, overcame a gun-toting childhood to rap about peace and love. He talks to Touré about pirates, and how U.S. "thugs" have nothing on him.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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