Toure

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Toure was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States on March 20th, 1971 and is the TV Show Host. At the age of 53, Toure biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
March 20, 1971
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Age
53 years old
Zodiac Sign
Pisces
Networth
$2 Million
Profession
Journalist, Music Critic, Novelist
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Rita Nakouzi ​(m. 2005)​
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Toure Life

Touré (born Touré Neblett; March 20, 1971) is an American writer, music journalist, cultural critic, and television presenter.

On MSNBC, he appeared on The Cycle as a co-host.

In addition to his appearance on MSNBC's The Dylan Ratigan Exhibition, he was also a host of Fuse's Hip Hop Shop and On the Record.

He is a member of the Rock and Roll Nominating Committee.

At the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music in New York, he taught a course on hip hop history, including The Portable Promised Land (2003), Soul City (2005), Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness? Why Prince Became an Icon (2013) and What It Means To Be Black Now (2011) and I Would Die 4 U.

He is also a regular contributor to The Daily Beast.

Early life

On March 20, 1971, Touré Neblett was born in Boston. Roy E. Neblett, his father, was an accountant and a member of Boston mayor Kevin White's personal staff. When Roy was attending Suffolk University Law School, his parents met, and his mother Patricia worked at the Neblett accounting company. The paternal grandparents of Touré immigrated to Harlem, Barbados, and the British Virgin Islands.

He attended Milton Academy and Emory University, but then dropped out after his junior year. He completed Columbia University's MFA writing program for one year in 1996. Meika's sister, Meika, attended Milton Academy and Emory, where she completed her degree in three and a half years and competed in the NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championship as a freshman before attending Howard University College of Medicine.

Personal life

Touré married Lebanese novelist and pop culture commentator Rita Nakouzi on March 19, 2005. They have a son named Hendrix and a daughter named Fairuz. Rev. Run-DMC was the officiant, and Nelson George served as the best man. Touré and his wife live in Brooklyn, New York, in the Fort Greene neighborhood.

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Career

The Fire This Time, a black student newspaper, was founded by a student at Emory University in Touré. Touré began his writing career as an intern at Rolling Stone in 1992. He has written and published essays about Rolling Stone, Essence, The New York Times, Playboy, Time, The Village Voice, Vibe, The Washington Post, and Ebony. "Kurt is My Co-Pilot" by Rolling Stone on Dale Earnhardt Jr. was included in The Best American Sports Writing 2001. His work has also appeared in the collections Best American Essays of 1999, the Da Capo Best Music Writing of 2004, and Best American Erotica of 2004.

Touré has written five books. Portable Promised Land, his short story collection, was released in 2002. According to The Washington Post, he wrote Soul City (2004), which was set in an African-American utopia. "What Is Inside You Brother," the Kool-Aid's 2006 essay collection included an personal essay. "This essay was selected for inclusion in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Best American Essays of 1996." Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness? by Touré in 2012. What It Means to Be Black is a book about race in modern America based on a series of interviews with over 100 influential African-American figures.

Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?

Both The New York Times and The Washington Post named it as one of 2011's most influential books, and Touré was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Achievement in Non-Fiction. Touré's I Would Die 4 U. Why Prince Became an Icon, a biography of Prince Became that explores the pop artist's work and legacy in a religious context, was published in 2013. Touré's book is based on a series of lectures given at Harvard University in 2012.

Touré appeared on CNN's American Morning in 2002 and was later seen three times a week on a panel titled "90-Second Pop." He was then recruited as CNN's first pop culture reporter. In 2005, BET hired Touré to cover BET News and Public Affairs affairs.

In addition, he hosted the series Community Surface on Tennis Channel and MTV's Spoke N' Heard, and was interviewed on Eminem's life for the rapper's A&E Biography segment. In 2008, he hosted I'll Try Anything Once, a reality show in which he tried a variety of occupations and occupations, including rodeo clowning and lumberjacking.

Former congressional candidate Krystal Ball, moderate Republican Abby Huntsman, and former Nation reporter Ari Melber co-hosted The Cycle on MSNBC from June 25, 2012, to July 31, 2015. The Cycle's most influential audience was first made up of Generation X viewers, and its success in this age group was largely due to the lively personalities of its unusually young hosts. The touré has often thrown race theory into political discourse on the show. Reuters news outlets reported that MSNBC is repurposing its television lineup to remove shows like The Cycle due to disappointingly poor ratings. On July 30, MSNBC announced the cancellation.

Touré sluggish response to Robert Zimmerman's tumultuous responses during the latter's interview with Piers Morgan in March 2012.

Touré said Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney had participated in racial coding by calling President Barack Obama "angry" and referring to it as "niggerization" in August 2012. The following day, Touré apologised for using the word for the first time.

Touré received flak from the Simon Wiesenthal Center in May 2014 for implying that Holocaust survivors survived in the United States after the Second World War because they were white: a blogger from the website Yo, Dat's Racis! "My family survived a concentration camp, came to the United States w/ no luck, and made it work," Touré replied, "the strength of whiteness." "I used a shorthand that was insensitive and wrong in an effort to reflect on racism in post-World War II America." Touré later apologised for his remarks.

Several podcasts, including Touré's Show, democracy-ish, and Touré's Free MFA were among Touré's available. He is best known for his investigation into Black identity and the notion of post-blackness.

Touré Show is a weekly African American podcast produced by DCP Entertainment and hosted by Touré. Black actors, musicians, politicians, journalists, campaigners, and other people of color and their allies are included in the podcast. The guests discuss their rise to fame while still giving listeners concrete tips for achieving goals. Among those he has interviewed are rapper Princess Nokia, comedian Roy Wood Jr., and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. The Touré Show has received mainly positive feedback from listeners on chartable.com, a podcast measurement firm.

Democracy-ish is a weekly podcast hosted by Touré and co-host Danielle Moodie, and is produced by DCP Entertainment. From a Black liberal viewpoint, the podcast provides weekly rundowns of the 2020 presidential election. On the radio, touré and co-host Danielle Moodie also cover current affairs that have nothing to do with the election affecting Black Americans. On chartable.com, a democracy-ish podcast has received mainly favorable listener feedback.

Free MFA with Touré was a weekly podcast hosted by Touré on eight episodes. Touré gave his thoughts on writing as well as the lessons he learned from his MFA program.

Touré has also appeared on podcasts including Creative Rebels, OPP with Corey Cambridge, Honestly Speaking with Tara Setmayer, and The Gist.

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