Co-host of MSNBC's "The Cycle" Touré joined HuffPost Live host Marc Lamont Hill Thursday and defended his network's all-white primetime lineup. The ...
Brad Paisley and LL Cool J sparked quite the controversy when they released a song together titled "Accidental Racist" on Tuesday. The track outraged ...
Ron Wyden was the only Democratic senator to stand with Rand Paul during the filibuster. Where were the other liberals?
MSNBC's Touré addressed the critics of his views on the Obama administration's drone policy on Monday. The "Cycle" co-host was singled out for his...
MSNBC hosts split sharply from each other on Tuesday over the question of the Obama administration's drone policy. The majority of the channel's pr...
In this clip from September 9th's The Unconvention, the panel talks about the competing philosophies between the Democrat and Republican parties. T...
92nd Street Y and Comedy Central's Indecision "The Unconvention" took place on Sunday, September 9th at 92YTribeca. A night featuring a mixture of ser...
With the Romney campaign, as it was with Reagan's, welfare is the weaponized code word. It's the GOP's 21st century Southern strategy deployed to stir up resentment, anger, and yes, hatred.
We should all have grown tired of the media cycle of fixating on a politician's remark until an apology is offered. But some remarks form a pattern worth analyzing. One pattern now clear is the racially charged political speech emerging from the Romney campaign.
MSNBC's Touré apologized Friday for using the n-word in his discussion of Mitt Romney. On Thursday, the co-host of "The Cycle" alleged that Romne...
MSNBC's Touré aroused the ire of the Romney campaign when he used the n-word to describe its tactics against President Obama. Speaking on "The Cyc...
MSNBC has found its replacement for Dylan Ratigan's show: "The Cycle." The new program, which the network was set to announce on Thursday, will fea...
HBO's hotly anticipated comedy "Girls" premiered last night to 872,000 viewers. The Lena Dunham-created, Judd Apatow-produced series presents itself a...
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...
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...
BAMAKO, Mali — Television screens throughout this landlocked country momentarily went black Friday, as residents near the building housing the s...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
Cultural critic Touré’s article in the September 5 issue of ESPN magazine, "What if Michael Vick Were White?" prompted a maelstrom of controversy...
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.
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 ...
