Touré
Author & Award-Winning Journalist
Touré is the author of Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? A Look At What It Means To Be Black Now. He has already written three books: Never Drank the Kool-Aid, a collection of essays about hiphop and life; Soul City, A Novel; and the Portable Promised Land, a collection of short stories. He is an NBC contributor and a regular on MSNBC’s the Dylan Ratigan Show. He is also the host of the Fuse shows the Hiphop Shop and On the Record. He is also a contributor to Tennis Channel. He remains a Contributing Editor at Rolling Stone. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Artforum, Tennis, Playboy, the Best American Essays of 1999, the Best American Sportswriting of 2001, the Da Capo Best Music Writing of 2004 and the Best American Erotica of 2004.
Touré studied at Columbia University’s graduate school of creative writing and lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn with his wife and two children.
Interested in booking Touré to speak at your next event?
Touré studied at Columbia University’s graduate school of creative writing and lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn with his wife and two children.
Interested in booking Touré to speak at your next event?
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