Toure
Touré is a correspondent for BET and the author of Soul City, a novel. He’s also the author of the Portable Promised Land, a collection of short stories, and Never Drank the Kool-Aid, a collection of his magazine work. He’s been a Contributing Editor at Rolling Stone for over ten years and was CNN’s first Pop Culture Correspondent, and was the host of MTV2's Spoke N Heard. He has appeared on many TV shows including the Today show, the O’Reilly Factor, Paula Zahn Now, Anderson Cooper 360°, and Topic A with Tina Brown where Brown called him, “a one-man media conglomerate.” His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Best American Essays of 1999, the Best American Sportswriting of 2001, the Da Capo Best Music Writing of 2004, and the Best American Erotica of 2004. He studied at Columbia University’s graduate school of creative writing and lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, with his wife Rita.
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