Who's Afraid of Post–Blackness?
Tour
Thursday, 02 Feb 2012 at 8:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
Tour, a correspondent for NBC, is the author of Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness, a look at what it means to be black today and how blackness has changed over the decades. In researching the book he interviewed more than one hundred prominent blacks, including Jesse Jackson, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Cornel West, Malcolm Gladwell, Soledad O'Brien, Kara Walker, and Paul Mooney. Tour has been a contributing editor at Rolling Stone for more than fifteen years and has interviewed nearly every major hip-hop figure. He is also the host of two shows on Fuse: The Hip-Hop Shop and On the Record, a music interview show with guests including Lady Gaga, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, Rihanna, and many others. Tina Brown has called him "a one-man media conglomerate." Part of the National Affairs Series and the Martin Luther King Jr Holiday Series.Cosponsored By:
- Black Graduate Student Association
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Planning Committee
- National Affairs
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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