Toure Show
Touré talks to successful people to find out how they became successful and to see what they know that can help you on your journey. Check out NEW episodes every Wednesday and Throwback episodes on Sundays.
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Our Editor's Take
The Toure Show offers entrepreneurial, political, creative, and athletic inspiration from exemplary professionals. The podcast intends to highlight successful individuals from the Black community.
Podcast host Touré is an author and TV host with an admirable resumé. He started as a Rolling Stone writer. Touré hosted shows on MTV, BET, MSNBC, and Fuse. He was a pop culture correspondent for CNN. Touré has written six books. They include Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now, which The New York Times and The Washington Post declared a notable book. Touré's remarkable guest list emphasizes Black individuals. Listeners hear from Salman Rushdie, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Don Lemon, and Cory Booker.
Rosalind 'Roz" Brewer joins the podcast as a guest. She had been COO of Starbucks for six months when a video prompted a lawsuit of national interest. Black businessmen Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson were waiting for someone to join their meeting at Starbucks. They hadn't ordered, but they had used the restroom. The manager called the police, who arrested them for trespassing. Starbucks had a policy that made restrooms available to paying customers. Brewer describes how she handled that crisis. She helped implement training that Starbucks shared with competitors.
Brewer wanted to stop racial profiling everywhere rather than only addressing that incident. She became the CEO of the Fortune 500 company Walgreens Boots Alliance. Brewer was the only Black woman to do so at the time. She's held prestigious positions at Amazon, Walmart, Kimberly-Clark, and Sam's Club. Toure Show podcast listeners will understand why when they hear how Brewer thinks.
Touré interviews Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who says basketball is what he did, but writing is who he is. The legendary athlete is an acclaimed author. Abdul-Jabbar recalls protesting on UCLA's campus after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. People asked why he'd risk losing his chance to play in the NBA. The answer exemplifies why greatness isn't about what someone does for a living. It's about how and why they do it. The Toure Show podcast proves that of many icons.
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