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And The 'Girls' Backlash Begins

The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 04.16.2012

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HBO's hotly anticipated comedy "Girls" premiered last night to 872,000 viewers. The Lena Dunham-created, Judd Apatow-produced series presents itself a...

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WATCH: Piers Morgan's Epic Brawl With MSNBC Pundit

Posted 05.31.2012

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Piers Morgan got into a furious fight with author and MSNBC contributor Touré on Friday over his interview with the brother of Trayvon Martin shooter...

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Mali Coup Leader Dismisses Fear Of Countercoup

AP | MARTIN VOGL and MICHELLE FAUL | Posted 05.24.2012

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BAMAKO, Mali — Mali's U.S.-trained coup leader said Saturday he is in control of the country, has no fears of a countercoup and wants peace talk...

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After Coup, Mali President's Whereabouts Unknown

AP | BABA AHMED AND MICHELLE FAUL | Posted 05.23.2012

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BAMAKO, Mali — Television screens throughout this landlocked country momentarily went black Friday, as residents near the building housing the s...

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Et Tu, Touré? A Critic of White Privilege Is Oblivious to Marital Privilege

Bella DePaulo | Posted 05.07.2012

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So those are my two choices? Either I'm providing for my family or I'm out to boost my ego, my status, and my self-image? Touré, there are around 100 million adults who are not married, and that's just counting the ones in the U.S.

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Jodi Kantor: Michelle Obama's Life In The Spotlight

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 03.05.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Jodi Kantor's recent book,"The Obamas," is a best-selling portrait of the president and first lady's lives in the White House, and one t...

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Touré and Henry Louis Gates Discuss 'Post-Blackness'

www.theroot.com | Posted 11.30.2011

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The Root's editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., sat down with Touré to talk about racial authenticity, being black during Obama's presidency and w...

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Tyler Perry, Al Sharpton and the "Proper Negro" Remark

Dr. Boyce Watkins | Posted 12.26.2011

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Tyler Perry has been hit with the kind of haterology only reserved for a black man who was able to stealthily rise to become the highest paid man in all of Hollywood. Not the highest paid black man... the highest paid man, period.

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Is Racism Actually Worse in the Age of Obama?

Keli Goff | Posted 11.26.2011

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There are plenty of downsides to racism, but the biggest is perhaps the fear and paranoia it instills in those who have experienced it or seen it up close and personal.

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The New Black Aesthetic Revisited

Trey Ellis | Posted 11.26.2011

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With the publication of Toure's Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness, I have been inundated with requests for my 1989 essay, "The New Black Aesthetic," to which Toure's enjoyable work is a book-length update and homage.

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WATCH: Touré On Michael Vick's White-Wash And Post-Black In America

HuffingtonPost.com | Rebecca Carroll | Posted 11.13.2011

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Cultural critic Touré’s article in the September 5 issue of ESPN magazine, "What if Michael Vick Were White?" prompted a maelstrom of controversy...

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It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Black

Miles Marshall Lewis | Posted 10.25.2011

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Synthesizing the thoughts of 105 interviewees (Jesse Jackson, Malcolm Gladwell, Chuck D, Cornel West, etc.), Touré takes square aim at the myth that there's one monolithic way to act African-American.

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Zadie Smith, Chuck Klosterman

newhavenreview.com | Posted 05.25.2011

OK, so you may remember that a few months back a little magazine called The New Yorker decided to make a list of 20 top fiction writers under the age ...

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Twitter...Life in 140 Characters or Less

Brooke-Sidney Gavins | Posted 05.25.2011

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And as interesting (or not) as this whole conversation about what Twitter is, the better question to ask is why are people using it? Why has Twitter caught on?

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