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Join Discussion with Touré and Soledad O’Brien To Discuss What It Means to Be Black Now In Harlem

The discussion will center around Touré’s new book Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to Be Black Now and CNN’s Black in America 4: The New Promised Land – Silicon Valley.

Touré is an American novelist, essayist, music journalist, cultural critic, and television personality based in New York City. He is the host of Fuse’s Hiphop Shop and On The Record. Continue reading

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A Literary Whiteness Protection Program

Essay By Toure for the NYTimes

This may come as a shock to you, especially if you look at whiteness as a boon and blackness as a burden, but I have never once wished to be white. If a fairy godfather came to me and said I could switch races, I’d open the window and make him use it. Continue reading