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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: @toureshowTwitter: @toureToure Show Episode 298Host & Writer: TouréSenior Producer: Jackie GarofanoAssistant Producer: Adell ColemanEditor: Ryan WoodhallPhotographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick KarpBooker: Claudia JeanThe House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Touré Show Ep 43: Tiffany Haddish-I Am WinningOriginal Air Date: August 22, 2018Tiffany 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 inspiringInstagram: @toureshowTwitter: @toure 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: @toureshowTwitter: @toureToure Show Episode 297Host & Writer: TouréSenior Producer: Jackie GarofanoAssistant Producer: Adell ColemanEditor: Ryan WoodhallPhotographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick KarpBooker: Claudia JeanThe House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Original Air Date: February 19, 2020Original 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: @tourePatreon.com/toureshowInstagram: @toureshowTwitter: @toure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alicia Garza. One of the founders of Black Lives Matter. Activist. Revolutionary. Author. Phenomenal woman. It was an honor to talk with her.Instagram: @toureshowTwitter: @toureToure Show Episode 296Host & Writer: TouréSenior Producer: Jackie GarofanoAssistant Producer: Adell ColemanEditor: Ryan WoodhallPhotographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick KarpBooker: Claudia JeanThe House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Toure Show Ep 107: Nicole Hannah-Jones: I Live In A SlaveocracyOriginal Air Date: January 8, 2020Nikole 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: @toureshowTwitter: @toure 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: @toureshowTwitter: @toureToure Show Episode 295Host & Writer: TouréSenior Producer: Jackie GarofanoAssistant Producer: Adell ColemanEditor: Ryan WoodhallPhotographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick KarpBooker: Claudia JeanThe House: DCP Entertainment 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: @toureshowTwitter: @toureToure Show Episode 294Host & Writer: TouréSenior Producer: Jackie GarofanoAssistant Producer: Adell ColemanEditor: Ryan WoodhallPhotographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick KarpBooker: Claudia JeanThe House: DCP Entertainment 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: @toureshowTwitter: @toureToure Show Episode 293Host & Writer: TouréSenior Producer: Jackie GarofanoAssistant Producer: Adell ColemanEditor: Ryan WoodhallPhotographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick KarpBooker: Claudia JeanThe House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Toure Show Ep 179: Isiah Thomas–I'm A ChampionOriginal Air Date: September 30, 2020The 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: @toureshowTwitter: @toure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rick James was an incredible musician who lived a checkered life. Director Sacha Jenkins talks about his new film about Rick “Bitchin: The Sound And Fury of Rick James” which is on Showtime now.Instagram: @toureshowTwitter: @toureToure Show Episode 292Host & Writer: TouréSenior Producer: Jackie GarofanoAssistant Producer: Adell ColemanEditor: Ryan WoodhallPhotographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick KarpBooker: Claudia JeanThe House: DCP Entertainment 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: @toureshowTwitter: @toureToure Show Episode 291Host & Writer: TouréSenior Producer: Jackie GarofanoAssistant Producer: Adell ColemanEditor: Ryan WoodhallPhotographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick KarpBooker: Claudia JeanThe House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Original Air Date: May 2, 2018Touré Show Ep 27: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar-How To Ball In LifeThe 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/toureshowInstagram: @toureshowTwitter: @toure 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: @toureshowTwitter: @toureToure Show Episode 290Host & Writer: TouréSenior Producer: Jackie GarofanoAssistant Producer: Adell ColemanEditor: Ryan WoodhallPhotographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick KarpBooker: Claudia JeanThe House: DCP Entertainment 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: @toureshowTwitter: @toureToure Show Episode 289Host & Writer: TouréSenior Producer: Jackie GarofanoAssistant Producer: Adell ColemanEditor: Ryan WoodhallPhotographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick KarpBooker: Claudia JeanThe House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Original Air Date: August 4, 2021Toure Show 267: I'm the Smooth OperatorBig Daddy Kane. One of the best rappers of all time.Patreon.com/toureshowInstagram: @toureshowTwitter: @toure 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/toureshowInstagram: @toureshowTwitter: @toureToure Show Episode 288Host & Writer: TouréSenior Producer: Jackie GarofanoAssistant Producer: Adell ColemanEditor: Ryan WoodhallPhotographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick KarpBooker: Claudia JeanThe House: DCP Entertainment 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/toureshowInstagram: @toureshowTwitter: @toureToure Show Episode 287Host & Writer: TouréSenior Producer: Jackie GarofanoAssistant Producer: Adell ColemanEditor: Ryan WoodhallPhotographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick KarpBooker: Claudia JeanThe House: DCP Entertainment 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 277Host & Writer: TouréSenior Producer: Jackie GarofanoAssistant Producer: Adell ColemanEditor: Ryan WoodhallPhotographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick KarpBooker: Claudia JeanThe House: DCP Entertainment 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/toureshowInstagram: @toureshowTwitter: @toureToure Show Episode 286Host & Writer: TouréSenior Producer: Jackie GarofanoAssistant Producer: Adell ColemanEditor: Ryan WoodhallPhotographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick KarpBooker: Claudia JeanThe House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices