Toure Show

Original Air Date: Dec 18, 2019 Original Title: Toure Show Ep 104: Yvette Nicole Brown: I Am Sunshine 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 out of poverty in Cleveland and into a long, steady acting career. She was on Community, she was in Avengers: Endgame, she’s done movies, sitcoms, kids shows, all kinds of things. We had an amazing talk about life and acting and walking away from her career to care for her Dad and much more. She’s an incredible person Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nicole Ari Parker is one of the new stars of HBO’s And Just Like That and she’s been a friend of mine forever so this is a great conversation. She’s a an amazing actress and an awesome person and she’s on one of the biggest shows in TV. We talk about doing this legendary show and why she ate that french fry in the first ep, who LTW really is, and what it’s like to work on this show and be a mom and be a wife and make it all work. Fans of And Just Like That have to hear this! Toure Show Episode 307 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Touré Show Ep - 42: I Am Fashion Original Air Date: August 15, 2018 My friend Andre Leon Talley passed away this week. He was a fashion world icon who rose from nothing to become a major player and tastemaker. He’s brilliant, witty, funny, and a lot of fun to be around and all of that comes out in this epic conversation. Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Snoop aka Felicia Pearson is a Baltimore legend, a hustler who became a star on The Wire and is now an actor. She’s had a crazy life and we get into lots of her wildest stories and what makes her tick. Amazing conversation. Toure Show Episode 306 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Toure Show Ep 168: James Mtume–I Am Music Original Air Date: August 21, 2020 The legendary James Mtume passed away recently so let’s throwback to our 2021 convo with the musician who played with Miles Davis and made “Juicy Fruit” which became the basis for Biggie’s “Juicy.” He’s got all kinds of stories about his incredible life in music. He will be missed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hrishikesh Hirway is the man behind the amazing podcast and TV show Song Exploder and he’s a musician and an all around amazing person with an awesome sounding voice. He’s got a new song out called Between Here And There featuring Yo-Yo Ma. Check it out here: https://ffm.to/betweenthereandhere Toure Show Episode 305 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Original Air Date: March 10, 2021 Original Title: Toure Show Ep 225 - I'm in the House Maxine Waters is one of the most powerful and charismatic people in Congress. But how do you get important things passed when Republicans want to obstruct everything? We dig into how she fights and the legislation she cares most about. This is a throwback to our interview from early 2021. Instagram @toureshow. Twitter: @toure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Armand Hammer is a legendary underground hiphop duo that’s been rocking the mic for years. They’re brilliant and their rhyming is incredible and it was an honor to talk to two amazing veteran MCs about music. Toure Show Episode 304 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Original Air Date: 2/2/2018 Original Title: Touré Show Ep 12: Black Thought-How To MC Black Thought is one of the greatest MCs of all time. How'd he become such a monstrous talent? What are his favorite words? What makes Thought who he is? I dig into all of that and more in this 2018 interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doug Lyons is a great young Broadway playwright as well as an actor, writer, director, and composer. He loves creating stories that will illuminate the lives of Black queer people and I love talking to him about Broadway, acting, writing, and how he wants to tell great stories about gay people. Toure Show Episode 303 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Touré Show Ep - 159: I Save People Original Air Date: July 22, 2020 Iyanla Vanzant is one of the most interesting guests I’ve ever had. In this talk she deeply analyzes the world, herself, me, everything. She’s a fountain of wisdom. I am usually skeptical of spiritual guru types but this woman is doing the work of saving people. And this conversation shows me how deeply she thinks and cares about people. It was an honor to get to know her. This is a throwback to our interview from 2020. Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zakiya Dalila Harris is the best-selling novelist who wrote The Other Black Girl, a book that took the publishing industry by storm. I love talking to writers about writing and their process and the way to make a book explode. Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 302 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Original Air Date: September 2, 2020 Original Title: Touré Show Ep 171: I'm A Writer Isabel Wilkerson is one of the great writers of her generation. The author of The Warmth Of Other Suns and Caste is creating narrative non-fiction that explains Black America with a depth and precision rarely seen. I love her research, I love her way of explaining things, and I love her writing style so we’re throwing back to one of my favorite eps ever. It’s a visit with a genius. Instagram @toureshow. Twitter: @toure Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Eric Dyson is a brilliant public intellectual and a great friend. I love talking with him because he’s genius and because he loves Blackness so deeply. Here we dive into some of the messages in his new book Entertaining Race where he talks about the history of Black Americans being entertainers on every level. We are performative on a celebrity level from music to screen to sports, but we are also amazingly and beautifully performative on every level. Regular Black folks talk and walk and greet each other in ways that are expressive and performative and beautiful. We talk through all of that. Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 301 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wendy Raquel Robinson is a star on The Game one of the longest-running shows on TV! We talk acting, affirmations, and how it is she’s managed to have such a long career. Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 300 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Greg Tate passed away this week so I’m throwing back to an episode we did in 2020 where we talk about his career, Blackness, and his time interviewing Sade. Toure Show Episode 138 Original Air Date: May 8, 2020 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tananarive Due understands horror. She’s written it, she’s studied it, she teaches about it at UCLA in a class that has Jordan Peele come by to explain his perspective. There’s something unique about Black horror films like Get Out or Candyman—they’re not usually just a madman going around killing. There’s usually some political angle that relates to the challenge of being Black in America. Tananarive talks about this and much more about the art and science of Black horror films including the work of Jordan Peele. Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 299 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis make up one of the great production teams of the modern era—they started with Prince, they helped make Janet Jackson a superstar, and much more. I’ve wanted to talk to them for a long time. Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 298 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Touré Show Ep 43: Tiffany Haddish-I Am Winning Original Air Date: August 22, 2018 Tiffany Haddish is a Hollywood Superstar and she overcame so much to get there, from a horrific childhood to homelessness as an adult. She's a success now because she thought all of what's happening to her into existence. The power of her mind is so inspiring Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rémy Ngamije is the author of the great new novel The Eternal Audience of One and he Zoomed from Namibia to talk about his book and writing and the political struggles of modern Africans. It’s an amazing conversation. Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 297 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Original Air Date: February 19, 2020 Original Title: Touré Show Ep 115: Who Killed Malcolm X Now that two men have been exonerated in the murder of Malcolm X, who killed him? Well there’s a Netflix doc that has an answer: “Who Killed Malcolm X” tells us the name of the man who pulled the trigger of the sawed-off shotgun that killed Malcolm, and which Newark mosque he was from. I talk with the directors Rachel Dretzin and Phil Bertelsen about who killed Malcolm and how the American government conspired to kill Malcolm—his top bodyguard at the end was an NYPD infiltrator and informant. Instagram @toureshow. Twitter: @toure Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alicia Garza. One of the founders of Black Lives Matter and Black Futures Lab. Organizer. Revolutionary. Author. Phenomenal woman. It was an honor to talk with her. Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 296 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Toure Show Ep 107: Nicole Hannah-Jones: I Live In A Slaveocracy Original Air Date: January 8, 2020 Nikole Hannah Jones is the creator of the amazing 1619 project which explains how America is still impacted by the legacy of slavery. We are, today, in a slaveocracy. Nikole is a verified genius, the recipient of a MacArthur grant, and I can feel her genius when I speak to her. She is a toweringly influential intellectual. Her ideas have changed my thinking on many issues. It’s time to throwback to my convo with the great NHJ. Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yvonne Orji is a fantastic actress, an hysterical comedian, and someone who has a really close relationship with God. She listens when He tells her what to do. When He said go be a comedian she was like what? No. She tried to ignore that advice but… here we are. Her life story and behind the scenes stories about Insecure are fascinating. Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 295 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jelani Cobb is a brilliant writer, thinker, professor, academic, NYer staffer, and the author of the new book The Matter of Black Lives. I love his mind so any chance I get to talk to him is a joy. Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 294 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Omar Dorsey is a veteran actor who’s appeared in Halloween Kills, Harriet, When They See Us, Django Unchained and many more films. We talk about the craft of acting and what it’s like to work in Hollywood. Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 293 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Toure Show Ep 179: Isiah Thomas–I'm A Champion Original Air Date: September 30, 2020 The NBA season is back in swing so let’s throwback to my interview with the legendary Isiah Thomas a 2 time NBA champ and one of the greatest point guards in NBA history. We talk about mental toughness, on court trash talking, what it was like to battle Jordan, Kareem, Magic, and Bird, as well as how to be a winner. Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Justin Simien, the creator of Dear White People talks about the show’s end, why the show had to end, how hard it was to do a major show, and why the final season was a musical. Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 291 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Original Air Date: May 2, 2018 Touré Show Ep 27: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar-How To Ball In Life The NBA has returned so let’s throwback to my convo with the GOAT Kareem Abdul Jabbar a man who now calls himself a writer who played basketball. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Celeste Headlee is a longtime public radio star and the author of Speaking of Race: Why Everybody Needs to Talk About Racism. We talk deeply about her book and why parents need to talk to their kids about race and racism and how they should do it. Basically: racism is like anything else, if you don’t tell your kids about it someone outside your home will and they may not get the right message from them. Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 290 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Congressman Adam Schiff is the author of a fantastic new book Midnight In Washington that talks about living through the 1/6 insurrection, the Trump years, the Benghazi hearings and more. He’s a fascinating politician who’s very honest and candid and real about how crazy it’s been to work in DC through the last few years of GOP insanity. Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 289 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Original Air Date: August 4, 2021 Toure Show 267: I'm the Smooth Operator Big Daddy Kane. One of the best rappers of all time. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Khalil Gibran Muhammad is an amazing History Professor at Harvard and an old friend of mine and the co-host of a new podcast called Some of My Best Friends Are. He’s brilliant and fascinating and this is a deep dive into his thoughts on Black history and why this brother’s co-host and best friend is a white guy. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 288 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Neal Brennan is an hysterical standup and a great comedy writer. He was one of the minds behind Chappelle’s Show and now he’s doing a show called Unacceptable in NY until Nov 21. This is a great convo about comedy, money, Chappelle, and what it’s like to live the stand up life. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 287 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2018 I interviewed the legendary actor Michael K Williams about his HBO documentary Raised In the System which gave him a chance to talk about criminal justice and also about his incarcerated nephew Dominic who did over 20 years inside. It was a powerful interview—we talk about prison, drug addiction, acting, the Wire, the Night Of, and Dominic who had been released days earlier and was there at the interview with us. It was an honor to spend time with Michael—he was an intense freedom fighter who cared deeply about criminal justice reform. His intensity comes through in this conversation. Toure Show Episode 277 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Clint Smith is the author of a powerful book about the ways that slavery continues to impact America. He visited many places that where that influence is most plainly visible and brought home how slavery continues to shape our modern lives in a beautifully-written way. Clint is a great writer and thinker and it was an honor to talk to him. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 286 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dres from Black Sheep is an MC who made a lot of noise in the 90s and is still out here making music now—he’s got an album coming out next year with him rhyming over J Dilla beats. We had an intense convo about a recent IG post that seemed homophobic, his music, his rise, his time in the drug game, and his thoughts on being a father. A great conversation with a great MC. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 285 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Original Air Date: October 16, 2019 Toure Show Ep 95: Ibram Kendi-I am Anti-Racist Dr. Ibram Kendi is a new recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant which is so deserved because of his work educating people about the reality of racism and anti-racism. In this 2019 interview we talked about his work and his book How To Be An Anti-Racist. He says you’re either racist or anti-racist. There is no neutral ground. He’s an important and influential thinker and this convo is really inspiring. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hari Kondabolu is an amazingly influential comedian and comedic writer and the man behind the landmark doc The Problem With Apu. He’s a brilliant and funny guy so we talk about comedy and being Indian-American and why he had to stand up to the Simpsons. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 284 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jordan Casteel is a brilliant young painter who was just awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant. Her work is extraordinary. We talk about painting, Blackness, and living with lupus. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 283 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Original Air Date: August 12, 2020 Toure Show Ep 165: I Am Music Wyclef Jean. Genius. Producer. Rapper. Throwback to our awesome 2020 interview. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To hear this awesome conversation go to http://patreon.com/toureshow and subscribe. For just $5 a month you get 4 Friday Patreon exclusives and the full version of our Wednesday shows and you get to help us keep making this show! Yale professor Elizabeth Hinton has written an important and powerful book about the history of Black rebellion against police repression called America On Fire. A must read. We dive deep into why we shouldn’t call them riots, they’re uprisings, and why it’s the police being oppressive in Black communities that sparks those uprisings. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 282 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mekhi Phifer is a legendary actor. Was a privilege to speak about his craft and his journey through an amazing career. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 281 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Original Air Date: Feb 24, 2021 Andy Roddick was a tennis legend—#1 in the world, US Open winner, 3x Wimbledon finalist, and one of best servers in modern history. We talk about how to hit a great serve, what it’s like to play against Roger Federer, and what is mental toughness? Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elaine Welteroth is the big sister you knew you needed but didn’t know where to find. She’s succeeded in magazines, books, TV, and now she has a Master Class talking about how to make your career the best it can be. We talk about all the career advice you need. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 280 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stephanie Mills is a legendary singer. She’s been a star since she was a teenager and she’s got many timeless hits. We talk about singing, making hits, dating Michael Jackson, and raising a son with Down’s Syndrome. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 279 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the day of the US Open Finals let’s throwback to my 2018 convo with James Blake the tennis star who was once #4 in the world and #1 in America with wins over Federer and Nadal. But what’s most amazing is that he played his best tennis after breaking his neck in a freak injury and contracting shingles and losing his dad—all in one year. He’s tough, smart (Harvard), humble, and cool. And the best Black male player since Arthur Ashe. I interviewed him at the tennis club where I grew up, Sportsmen’s Tennis Club in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in front of a few hundred people. James is an amazing person. It’s really interesting to see how he thinks. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Isley is an amazing young singer who’s the daughter of one of the legendary Isley Brothers and it’s like she was born to sing. She has an amazing voice, perfect pitch, and synesthesia. A fascinating conversation with a gifted singer. Toure Show Episode 278 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2018 I interviewed the legendary actor Michael K Williams about his HBO documentary Raised In the System which gave him a chance to talk about criminal justice and also about his incarcerated nephew Dominic who did over 20 years inside. It was a powerful interview—we talk about prison, drug addiction, acting, the Wire, the Night Of, and Dominic who had been released days earlier and was there at the interview with us. It was an honor to spend time with Michael—he was an intense freedom fighter who cared deeply about criminal justice reform. His intensity comes through in this conversation. Toure Show Episode 277 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Original Air Date: July 31, 2019 Toure Show Ep 83: Mark Ronson - I'm Too Hot Mark Ronson is the host of Watch The Sound on Apple TV and 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 his musical philosophies and his stories about making music in this throwback from 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices