Toure Show
Episodes
Jelani Cobb–I Love The Life Of The Mind
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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Kenya Barris–I Am Black AF
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kenya Barris is one of the hottest TV creators in the game—he’s the creator and star of #BlackAF on Netflix, a show I love even though many don’...
Nikole Hannah Jones—I Live In A Slaveocracy
10 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nikole Hannah Jones just won the Pulitzer Prize for her amazing 1619 project for The NY Times. That project has made people smarter, made people cry ...
Greg Tate–I Am The Ironman
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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Dorian Missick—I’m An Actor
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dorian’s one of the stars of For Life on ABC—his character just came out of the closet, a big moment in his arc—but he’s been a working actor ...
The Central Park 5—We Are Free
03 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Central Park 5 aka the Exonerated 5, are symbols of both pain and redemption. The system rushed to convict them but years later new evidence uncov...
Jesmyn Ward–I Write
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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Terry McMillan–I Love My Characters
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Terry McMillan is one the most famous and successful writers of her time because she knows how to really connect with her audience. And the reason why...
Russell Hornsby—I Make It Funky
24 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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Jeffrey Wright—I’m An Actor
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
He’s an amazing actor who can play any role—right now he’s on HBO’s Westworld and making the new Batman. And he’s a Brooklyn guy who’s wor...
Jessica Care Moore—I Am Poetry
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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Tayarisha Poe — I Direct Movies
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tayarisha Poe is the director of Selah And The Spades (on Amazon) which is a brilliant film about cliques in a private school and the badass Black gir...
Mitchell S. Jackson–I’m A Survivor
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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Policing During Corona
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the frightening era of Coronavirus, the NYPD are on the front lines helping fight this battle. My friend Lt. Edwin Raymond polices in Brooklyn and ...
Sanford Biggers–I Am Art
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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Justin Simien–I Created Dear White People
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Justin Simien is the mind behind Dear White People, the amazing Netflix show that was previously an amazing movie of the same name. I did not know tha...
Malcolm Gladwell–I Am
27 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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Roy Wood Jr—I Feel Funny
25 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Roy Wood is an amazing comedian who does a really smart brand of comedy. You might have seen him on the Daily Show or on one of his Comedy Central sho...
Joyce Carol Oates—I Write
20 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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Jaime Harrison–I Will Beat Senator Lindsey Graham
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jaime Harrison is running for US Senate in South Carolina, trying to topple the horrible Senator Lindsey Graham. Who is he and how is campaigning in a...
Dame Dash—I Am The Man
11 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dame Dash is an entrepreneur as done by a street brawler. He’s a hustler, he’s brilliant, he’s a bully, he’s a wild man. He’s Harlem through...
Morris Day—I Love Prince
06 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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Edwidge Danticat—I Love To Write
04 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Edwidge Danticat is one of the great novelists of our time and an immigrant from Haiti who looks at America in a really unique way. She’s a master o...
Lil Yachty—I Am the King of the Youth
28 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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David Alan Grier—I Be Funny
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David Alan Grier has had an amazing career that started off Broadway, in A Soldier’s Play, which became an amazing film that he was great in, A Sold...
Neil DeGrasse Tyson—I Am More Than Science
21 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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Who Killed Malcolm X
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Who Killed Malcolm X is a hot new Netflix doc that tells us who pulled the trigger of the sawed-off shotgun that killed Malcolm X, which Newark mosque...
Joy Bryant—I Love the Supermarket
14 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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Karen Finney–I Worked For Hillary
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Karen Finney worked for Hillary Clinton and witnessed the rise and fall from the front row. As the Dems search for a new nominee, Hillary’s shadow l...
Amy Sherald—I Painted Michelle Obama
05 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Amy Sherald painted the official portrait of Michelle Obama that’s hanging in the National Portrait Gallery but there’s an awesome story around ho...
Marc Lamont Hill—I Grew Up With Kobe
29 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Marc Lamont Hill grew up in Philly playing basketball with Kobe Bryant. They were on different planets even then but Marc learned a lot about him in t...
Franklin Leonard - I Changed Hollywood
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Franklin Leonard is one of people who are aiding the Black film revolution from behind the scenes. He’s a veteran film exec who knows the game insid...
Harriet Tubman Came To Slay
15 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Harriet Tubman is one of the inspiring figures in American history. For years she did the hard, dangerous, crucial work of running into the South and ...
Nikole Hannah Jones—I Live In A Slaveocracy
08 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nikole Hannah Jones is the creator of the amazing 1619 project for The NY Times which has made people smarter, made people cry and made some conservat...
Sandra St. Victor—I Need A Little Ghetto Heaven
30 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sandra St. Victor is a legendary singer who led a group called the Family Stand and sang the 90s classic "Ghetto Heaven.” She worked with Prince, Ch...
Phillip Youmans—I Direct Movies
24 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Phillip Youmans is 19 years young and he’s already written and directed a powerful film starring Wendell Pierce called Burning Cane that’s on Ne...
Yvette Nicole Brown—I Am Sunshine
18 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Yvette Nicole Brown makes me happy every time I see her onscreen. She’s a ray of sunshine. That’s probably why she made it from growing up with no...
Kim Fields—I Am Living The Dream
11 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kim Fields has had an amazing acting career—she started as a kid on The Facts of Life, in her 20s she was a part of the iconic Living Single, she’...
Michael Eric Dyson—I’m In Jay-Z’s America
04 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The intellectual heavyweight champion is back with a book breaking down the genius of Jay-Z called Jay-Z: Made In America. Dyson is an old friend of m...
Malcolm Nance—I Know Why the Caged Trump Sings
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Malcolm Nance is the author of a powerful new book about how Russia lured in and controlled Trump called The Plot To Destroy America. He knows Trump i...
Lucas Bros: I Am Him
20 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Lucas Brothers are a pair of twins, Keith and Kenny, who are amazing stand-up comedians and comedy writers. They’re hysterical, they’re highly...
I Am Black In the Trump Era
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I Am Black In the Trump Era Politicon is an annual multi-day political festival that now takes place in Nashville. I conceived and moderated a panel ...
Lawrence O'Donnell—I Am the Last Word
06 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lawrence O’Donnell is one of the best TV hosts in cable news. He’s a man of passion and intelligence who prosecutes his subjects and sometimes his...
Michael Smith—I’m Unplugged From the Matrix
30 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Smith was at ESPN for 15 years, he grew up there and became the co-anchor (along with Jemele Hill) of one of the net’s marquee shows, the 6p...
Cyntoia Brown—I Am Free!
23 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Cyntoia Brown got out of prison just a few months ago. She did 15 years of a life sentence in prison for murder and she admits to having shot and kill...
Ibram Kendi—I Am Anti-Racist
16 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Ibram Kendi is the author of an important book How To Be An Anti-Racist that says you’re either racist or anti-racist. There is no neutral groun...
Susan Rice—I’m A Survivor
09 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ambassador Susan Rice was President Obama’s National Security Advisor for four years. She was the first one from the administration to go on TV and ...
Brittany Howard—I Love Jaime
02 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Brittany Howard is the leader of the Alabama Shakes, an amazing blues band, and she’s just released her first solo album Jaime, named for her older ...
Tamika Mallory—I’m Not Afraid
25 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tamika Mallory—I’m Not Afraid She’s an activist and a warrior who helped build the Women’s March. She’s a leader trying to make America bet...
Gbenga Akinnagbe—I Act
18 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gbenga Akinnagbe played the evil henchman Chris on The Wire and is now on Broadway playing the wrongfully-arrested doomed defendant Tom Robinson in To...
DMC—I Was Suicidal
11 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Touré Show Episode 90 DMC is one third of Run-DMC the most important group in hiphop history. Run-DMC were rap’s first superstars and their success...
Salman Rushdie-I Write
04 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Touré Show Episode 89 Rushdie is a legendary novelist and writer who is one of my literary idols. I’m proud to also call him a friend. His new nove...
A$AP Ferg—I Am The Streets
28 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A$AP Ferg—I Am The Streets Ferg is one of my favorite modern MCs because he’s versatile, raw, smart, and his flows are ill. Plus he’s a designer...
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms—I Love Atlanta
21 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms—I Love Atlanta Mayor Keisha is an extremely inspiring woman who’s making big changes to criminal justice system...
Sandra Bernhard-I Love Being Me
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sandra Bernhard is one of my favorite actress/comic/singers of all time. Long before she was Nurse Judy on Pose, she was on the Richard Pryor Show and...
Akiba and Kenrya—How We Fight White Supremacy
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How We Fight White Supremacy is a new book by Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin that talks about how to deal with the insidious monster controlling life...
Dapper Dan—I Am Harlem
07 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dapper Dan is a fashion legend, a hiphop legend, and a Harlem legend. He’s the man who made the clothes that define the height of early hiphop sty...
Mark Ronson-I'm Too Hot
31 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ronson is a music producer who’s made massive hits with Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, Amy Winehouse, and Miley Cyrus. How does he make music? We dig into ...
Senator Cory Booker—I Want To Be Your President
24 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
He’s running for President, he’s a superstar Senator, he was a superstar Mayor—Cory Booker can do anything. What’s his superpower? How have ...
Margot Bingham—I'm Gonna Miss She’s Gotta Have It
23 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Margot played Clorinda on the recently cancelled Netflix show She’s Gotta Have It. I watched every episode. I wanted to know what she’ll recall ab...
Ice Cube—I Had A Good Day
17 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ice Cube is a hiphop legend who started in N.W.A and became a solo star. He’s one of the greatest MCs ever. He’s also an actor and a screenwriter ...
Katrina Adams—I Played Pro Tennis
10 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Katrina Adams played tennis at the highest level in the 90s and ran the USTA in recent years. We’re nerding out about the intricacies of elite tenni...
Shangela—I Am Giving You Life!
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Shangela is a drag queen superstar who blew up on RuPaul’s Drag Race and has been crushing it ever since. It’s not just about the amazing outfits,...
Billy Porter—I Am Realness
26 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Billy Porter is the star of Pose and Kinky Boots and one of the most captivating actors working today. We talk about him kissing on camera, wearing a ...
The Central Park 5—We Are Free
19 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Central Park 5—We Are Free Dr. Yusef Salaam and Raymond Santana are two of the Central Park 5, men who are portrayed in the amazing new film Wh...
Elaine Welteroth—I Am More Than Enough
12 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Elaine Welteroth is fierce. She was the editor in chief at Teen Vogue, now she’s on Project Runway, and she’s written an amazing memoir about her ...
Congressman Hakeem Jeffries—I Am Open To Impeaching Trump
05 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Congressman Hakeem Jeffries is one of the most important people in Congress today because he knows how to push things through Congress, despite his...
Boots Riley—I Am Not Sorry To Bother You
29 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Boots Riley is one of the most exciting directors in Hollywood today. His amazing debut Sorry To Bother You is one of my favorite films of the last fe...
Jemele Hill - I Am Unbothered
22 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jemele Hill is a national icon. She went into ESPN as a journalist and came out a star. In the process she became Trump’s least favorite journalist ...
Nia Long—I Miss John Singleton
15 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nia Long’s movie career started with Boyz N Tha Hood and she remained friends with John Singleton for 30 years. She talks about her first days with ...
Fab 5 Freddy—I Love You Mary Jane
08 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Fab 5 Freddy is the director of a new Netflix doc about marijuana called the Grass Is Greener and he’s a legend. He was a graffiti artist in the 80s...
Sam Jay—I Feel Funny
01 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Jay is a writer for SNL and a stand up comic and this is a great interview about her development as a person. She couldn’t show up in comedy as ...
Corey Glover—I Am the Cult Of Personality
24 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Corey Glover is the lead singer of the biggest Black rock band that ever lived—Living Colour. He’s got stories to tell about band chaos, gigging i...
Dr. Melina Abdullah—I’m The Lion of BLM
17 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Melina Abdullah is an original member of Black Lives Matter and the staunchest and most public critic of the LAPD. She recently faced a year in pr...
Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine—I Don’t Act, I Am
10 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine is a lead actor on The Chi and he’s an actor of extraordinary power. Let me know what you think. Twitter: @toure. Instagram @...
Meshell Ndegeocello—I Am The Funk
03 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
She is one of the great musicians of her era, a woman who Ava Duvernay calls “a goddess.” She’s a brilliant funk and soul singer/songwriter/bass...
Jodie Patterson—I Love My Trans Son
27 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jodie Patterson wrote one of the great books of the year—The Bold World, a beautiful and gripping memoir that turns at the moment her three year-old...
Jay Smooth—I Keep It 110% Real
09 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jay Smooth is one of my favorite public intellectuals. Really interesting mind. I loved talking to him about race and hiphop and the right way to tell...
Susannah Melvoin—I Loved Prince
02 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Susannah was the love of Prince’s life. Nothing Compares 2 U is about her. If I Was Your Girlfriend is about her. They started dating before Purple ...
The Wu-Tang Clan—Ghost/Meth/RZA
26 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Wu is one of the best groups in hiphop history. I found three awesome interviews with the Wu in my vault so here’s three more from my 2004 MTV2 ...
Ricardo Rowan Phillips—I Love Tennis
19 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ricardo Rowan Phillips wrote one of the great books of the year—The Circuit, a deep dive into the pro tennis circuit. It’s awesome and I love talk...
Dr. Crystal Fleming—I Wigsnatch Racism
12 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Crystal Fleming is one of my favorite academics. She just published a book called How To Be Less Stupid About Race and it’s awesome. So I had to...
Marc Lamont Hill—I’m Good
05 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Marc Lamont Hill was fired from CNN just a few days ago. How’s he doing? What does he think about what happened? How has he been shaped by his many ...
Sandra Bland—Killed By Racism
28 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sandra Bland died after a routine traffic stop in Texas. Did she hang herself or was she killed? The directors of a new HBO documentary Say Her Name, ...
Inside NYPD with Corey Pegues
21 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Corey Pegues was in the NYPD for 21 years. How do we get more effective policing and more judicious policing that doesn’t demonize Black and brown y...
City Girls—I’m From the Bottom
14 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
City Girls is a hot, raunchy new rap group from Miami but there’s a lot to their story. I spoke to Yung Miami because her partner JT is in prison. W...
Derrick Johnson—I Love My People
05 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Derrick Johnson, the President of the NAACP, on what Black folks need to move forward, how he became President of the NAACP, is the organization still...
Santigold—I Am Music
31 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Santigold on making music in the modern world and all you have to do to make it as a recording artist. And learning how to be an artist. And the advic...
Dennis Rodman—I Love Kim Jong Un
24 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dennis Rodman talks in depth about going to North Korea and meeting Kim and having no idea who he was or what North Korea was all about. He says Kim’...
The Hate U Give
17 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Hate U Give is a gripping new movie about a Black teenage girl who watches her friend be shot and killed by a police officer during a routine traf...
Kid Fury—I Am Black Excellence
10 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kid Fury is the co-host of one of the best podcasts out, The Read. It’s hysterical and smart and superblack. He’s also a comedian and he’s writi...
En Vogue—We Were Born To Sing
03 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
En Vogue is one of the greatest singing groups ever. And they’re still out recording and touring—they just dropped a new album called Electric Sky...
Will Packer—I’m A Hollywood Producer
26 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Will Packer knows how to produce hot movies—Night School, Girls Trip, Ride Along, Straight Outta Compton—and he’s going to explain everything ab...
Macy Gray—I’m Selling Weed
19 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Macy Gray is one of my favorite modern singers—yes I love her voice. And she’s about to launch a line of weed for women. We talk about weed and ac...
April Ryan—I’m Getting Death Threats
12 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
April Ryan is the White House correspondent who’s always focused on issues that matter to Black America. And right now she’s afraid for her life. ...
Young Guru—I Am Music
05 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Young Guru is Jay-Z’s engineer and he’s the best engineer in hiphop. He knows music at a deep level. I love talking to him about Jay, Kanye, Rihan...
Lost Tapes 2004 vol 1—Jay-Z, Nas, Kanye
29 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Back in 2004 I interviewed Jay-Z, Nas, and Kanye when I was hosting a great little for MTV2 called Spoke N’ Heard. Here I present three interesting,...
Tiffany Haddish—I Am Winning
22 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tiffany Haddish is a red hot comedian who’s killing it in Hollywood right now. She overcame so much to get there. An horrific childhood, as an adult...
Andre Leon Talley—I Am Fashion
15 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Andre Leon Talley is a fashion icon who’s survived a lot. He’s been beaten for being gay. He’s had to swallow his tongue when fashion people wer...
Pete Rock—I Am The Incredible Hulk of Hiphop
08 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Pete Rock is one of the greatest producers in hiphop history. How’d he do it and what launched him? He tells all. Let me know what you think. Twitte...