Touré (journalist)
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| Born | Touré Neblett March 20, 1971 Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Occupation | Television host, novelist, journalist, critic |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Rita Nakouzi (m. 2005) |
| Children | 2 |
Touré (born Touré Neblett; March 20, 1971) is an American writer, music journalist, cultural critic, and television personality. He was a co-host of the TV show The Cycle on MSNBC. He was also a contributor to MSNBC's The Dylan Ratigan Show, and the host of Fuse's Hiphop Shop and On the Record. He serves on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominating Committee. He taught a course on the history of hip hop at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, part of the Tisch School of the Arts in New York.
Touré is the author of several books, including The Portable Promised Land (2003), Soul City (2004), Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means To Be Black Now (2011) and I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon (2013).
Touré was born Touré Neblett in Boston on March 20, 1971.
He attended Milton Academy, and then Emory University but dropped out after his junior year. In 1996, he attended Columbia University's MFA writing program for one year.
While a student at Emory University, Touré founded a black student newspaper, The Fire This Time, dedicated to black liberation theology while he was a student from 1989 to 1992. The paper has been described as "anti-white" and "lavished praise on famous anti-Semites, black supremacists, and conspiracy theorists". He also brought to the campus such speakers as Conrad Muhammad (a one time high-ranking official with the Nation of Islam, who later became a Baptist minister), H. Rap Brown, aka Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (author of the autobiography, Die Nigger Die!), fringe political candidate Lenora Fulani, and Frances Cress Welsing, a self described black supremacist. In an interview with The Daily Caller in 2013, Touré said The Fire This Time had been "an important black voice on campus" and "a form of community building."
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