Kenya Barris is one of the hottest TV creators in the game—he’s the creator and star of #BlackAF on Netflix, a show I love even though many don’t. We talk all about his new show, why it’s polarizing, why he loves that, and what it takes to be an elite TV creator. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Ep 139 Host & Writer: Toure Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta Coving...
May 13, 2020•49 min•Ep. 139
Nikole Hannah Jones just won the Pulitzer Prize for her amazing 1619 project for The NY Times. That project has made people smarter, made people cry and made some conservatives lose their minds. It seeks to explain how America is still impacted by the legacy of slavery. It is not past, we are, today, in a slaveocracy. The 1619 project is a podcast, an ongoing series of articles and essays that are being taught in schools, and will soon be a series of books. This builds on Nikole’s extraordinary ...
May 10, 2020•1 hr 23 min
This is a Friday Patreon Exclusive! Go to patreon.com/toureshow to hear the whole ep! For $5 a month you get 4 Patreon Exclusives a month! Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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...
May 08, 2020•7 min•Ep. 138
Dorian’s one of the stars of For Life on ABC—his character just came out of the closet, a big moment in his arc—but he’s been a working actor for years—he was on Luke Cage, The Good Wife, Southland and a lot more. His wife is a big actor, too—Simone Missick played Misty Knight on Luke Cage. He’s a thoughtful, creative artist who talks about acting and how to make it in the business. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Ep 137 Host & Writer: Toure Senior Produ...
May 06, 2020•40 min•Ep. 137
The Central Park 5 aka the Exonerated 5, are symbols of both pain and redemption. The system rushed to convict them but years later new evidence uncovered their innocence and led to a multi-million dollar settlement that left them comfortable and empowered. And then Ava Duvernay’s Netflix film about them When They See Us gave their story new oxygen. After that they felt truly liberated. On June 19, 2019 I spoke with two of the Central Park 5, Dr. Yusef Salaam and Raymond Santana, in Atlanta. Thi...
May 03, 2020•1 hr 55 min
This is a Friday Patreon Exclusive! Go to patreon.com/toureshow to hear the whole ep! For $5 a month you get 4 Patreon Exclusives a month! Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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...
May 01, 2020•9 min•Ep. 136
Terry McMillan is one the most famous and successful writers of her time because she knows how to really connect with her audience. And the reason why she understands how to do that is because she knows how to make great characters and she knows how to listen to them. She doesn’t tell her characters what to do, she lets them tell her what she wants them to do and who they are and by really listening, she creates really honest characters who people love. This is a master class in how to write com...
Apr 29, 2020•44 min•Ep. 135
This is a Friday Patreon Exclusive! Go to patreon.com/toureshow to hear the whole ep! For $5 a month you get 4 Patreon Exclusives a month! Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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...
Apr 24, 2020•7 min•Ep. 134
He’s an amazing actor who can play any role—right now he’s on HBO’s Westworld and making the new Batman. And he’s a Brooklyn guy who’s working on helping some great local restaurants get meals to several Brooklyn hospitals. We talk about how he’s trying to make a difference during Corona times and about his philosophies around acting and about what’s going on with the new Batman. I’ve known Jeff a long time and he’s a really deep and fascinating guy onscreen and off. Patreon.com/toureshow Instag...
Apr 22, 2020•36 min•Ep. 133
This is a Friday Patreon Exclusive! Go to patreon.com/toureshow to hear the whole ep! For $5 a month you get 4 Patreon Exclusives a month! Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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...
Apr 17, 2020•7 min•Ep. 132
Tayarisha Poe is the director of Selah And The Spades (on Amazon) which is a brilliant film about cliques in a private school and the badass Black girl who runs the whole social ecosystem. When you see it you know you’re looking at the debut film of a director who’s going to be making interesting and important films for a while. I wanted to talk to Tayarisha about how to make films, how she developed as a filmmaker, and what she thinks about modern film in general. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagra...
Apr 15, 2020•40 min•Ep. 131
This is a Friday Patreon Exclusive! Go to patreon.com/toureshow to hear the whole ep! For $5 a month you get 4 Patreon Exclusives a month! Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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...
Apr 10, 2020•6 min•Ep. 130
In the frightening era of Coronavirus, the NYPD are on the front lines helping fight this battle. My friend Lt. Edwin Raymond polices in Brooklyn and says he normally encounters 3 dead bodies a week but nowadays he’s seeing 9 or 10 dead bodies a week. The police have a critical role in this moment—should they continue making arrests for small, non-violent incidents when that means people go to jail where they are hypervulnerable to Coronavirus? Should they arrest people for not practicing social...
Apr 08, 2020•40 min•Ep. 129
This is a Friday Patreon Exclusive! Go to patreon.com/toureshow to hear the whole ep! For $5 a month you get 4 Patreon Exclusives a month! Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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...
Apr 03, 2020•7 min•Ep. 128
Justin Simien is the mind behind Dear White People, the amazing Netflix show that was previously an amazing movie of the same name. I did not know that Dear White People, a show I adore, was partly inspired by my 2011 book Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness, What It Means To Be Black Now. We talk about that, of course, and how Corona is impacting him, and how to be successful in film and TV, and much more. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Ep 127 Host & Writer...
Apr 01, 2020•44 min•Ep. 127
This is a Friday Patreon Exclusive! Go to patreon.com/toureshow to hear the whole ep! For $5 a month you get 4 Patreon Exclusives a month! Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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...
Mar 27, 2020•5 min•Ep. 126
Roy Wood is an amazing comedian who does a really smart brand of comedy. You might have seen him on the Daily Show or on one of his Comedy Central shows or one of his stand-up specials. If you need a laugh, and we all do right now, he’s the guy. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Ep 125 Host & Writer: Toure Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta Covington Booker: Claudi...
Mar 25, 2020•39 min•Ep. 125
This is a Friday Patreon Exclusive! Go to patreon.com/toureshow to hear the whole ep! For $5 a month you get 4 Patreon Exclusives a month! Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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...
Mar 20, 2020•4 min•Ep. 124
Jaime Harrison is running for US Senate in South Carolina, trying to topple the horrible Senator Lindsey Graham. Who is he and how is campaigning in a world of Coronavirus and what are South Carolina’s three different kinds of BBQ? And boy does he not mince words when talking about Graham and Mitch McConnell! This is a fascinating look at a rising political star who grew up poor with a single mother and is poised to become a US Senator in November. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram @toureshow Twit...
Mar 18, 2020•37 min•Ep. 123
Dame Dash is an entrepreneur as done by a street brawler. He’s a hustler, he’s brilliant, he’s a bully, he’s a wild man. He’s Harlem through and through. With me he opens up about the worst thing that’s ever happened to him and how it helped him become a truly liberated person and what it’s like to deal with diabetes and what makes him really sad and his time with Aaliyah. Today Dame gets deep. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Ep 121 Host & Writer: Toure ...
Mar 11, 2020•39 min•Ep. 121
This is a Friday Patreon Exclusive! Go to patreon.com/toureshow to hear the whole ep! For $5 a month you get 4 Patreon Exclusives a month! Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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...
Mar 06, 2020•6 min•Ep. 120
Edwidge Danticat is one of the great novelists of our time and an immigrant from Haiti who looks at America in a really unique way. She’s a master of the craft with lots to teach anyone who wants to understand how to be a better writer or anyone who wants to know what great writing is all about. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Ep 119 Host & Writer: Toure Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographer...
Mar 04, 2020•41 min•Ep. 119
This is a Friday Patreon Exclusive! Go to patreon.com/toureshow to hear the whole ep! For $5 a month you get 4 Patreon Exclusives a month! Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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...
Feb 28, 2020•4 min•Ep. 118
David Alan Grier has had an amazing career that started off Broadway, in A Soldier’s Play, which became an amazing film that he was great in, A Soldier’s Story, and now he’s on Broadway in a powerful revival of A Soldier’s Play. The man has been in all kinds of legendary stuff from In Living Color to Boomerang to the Wiz to The Carmichael Show and on and on. He’s a serious actor and a real funnyman and we talk about his whole career and what it means to be funny. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram ...
Feb 26, 2020•41 min•Ep. 117
This is a Friday Patreon Exclusive! Go to patreon.com/toureshow to hear the whole ep! For $5 a month you get 4 Patreon Exclusives a month! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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
Feb 21, 2020•9 min•Ep. 116
Who Killed Malcolm X is a hot new Netflix doc that tells us who pulled the trigger of the sawed-off shotgun that killed Malcolm X, which Newark mosque he was from, how he got away, how the NYPD knew Malcolm’s life was in danger and allowed him to operate, and how the FBI sowed the seeds of angry division in the Nation of Islam that led to Malcolm’s murder. I talk with the directors Rachel Dretzin and Phil Bertelsen about making the film and how the American government conspired to kill Malcolm—h...
Feb 19, 2020•44 min•Ep. 115
This is a Friday Patreon Exclusive! Go to patreon.com/toureshow to hear the whole ep! For $5 a month you get 4 Patreon Exclusives! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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
Feb 14, 2020•6 min•Ep. 114
Karen Finney worked for Hillary Clinton and witnessed the rise and fall from the front row. As the Dems search for a new nominee, Hillary’s shadow looms large, so I called Karen to have one more look at what went wrong for Hillary and what we misunderstand about her campaign and how 2016 changed politics as we know it. If you like Toure Show please support us on Patreon patreon.com/toureshow and get Patreon exclusive eps every Friday. Instagram @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Ep 113 Host &...
Feb 12, 2020•43 min•Ep. 113
Amy Sherald painted the official portrait of Michelle Obama that’s hanging in the National Portrait Gallery but there’s an awesome story around how she got that commission and the artistic decisions she made in making that painting. We get into all of that but there’s also so much more to her life than that painting. Amy had already become a major portraitist before that commission, even though, just a few years before she met the Obamas, Amy was broke and wondering where her artistic career was...
Feb 05, 2020•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 111
Marc Lamont Hill grew up in Philly playing basketball with Kobe Bryant. They were on different planets even then but Marc learned a lot about him in the hundreds of times they faced off. They went in different paths but stayed friends and Marc became more than just one of the coolest intellectuals in America, he became a basketball expert who thinks of himself as Mr. 76ers. He sits front row at every home game. Marc is an amazing brother who I’ve known and loved for many years and it was amazing...
Jan 29, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 110
