Touré is the author of five books, including I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon and Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to Be Black Now. He is the co-host of MSNBC’s show The Cycle. He is also the host of the Fuse show The Hiphop Shop and On the Record and is a professor at NYU’s Clive Davis School of Recorded Music.
Viewpoint: The Bravery of Obama’s Trayvon Speech
The President took a political risk because the spiritual and moral risk of not speaking to black pain was too great
