Bonnie Greer

Life & Society

Don't drink the Kool-Aid

• 28 February 2008
• 1 comment

I have had two reviews that every playwright should cherish. One told me to burn my script, the other told the management to ditch it. They are already in the process of being framed

Life & Society

No leaders

• 11 October 2007
• 11 comments

Young black Britons don't need Big Man role models like Jesse Jackson. They need local mentors - and a recognition that their British culture is valuable and unique.

Politics

Condoleezza Rice

• 21 February 2005
• 4 comments

The US Secretary of State is the most powerful black woman since the Queen of Sheba, writes Bonnie Greer. To understand her, you first have to understand the striving class she came from - and why her own history may return to haunt her

North America

America - I'm still proud of my passport

• 25 October 2004

Icons - Bonnie Greer on the America of Toni Morrison, Michael Moore and Dan Rather: a people always striving to be free

Diary - Bonnie Greer

• 14 April 2003

Yes, Bush and Rumsfeld are Americans. But so were Martin Luther King and Woody Guthrie. So I won't, after all, be walking to Grosvenor Square to hand back my passport

World Affairs

War: ain't nothing but a dick thing

• 17 March 2003

The debate on Iraq is being played out against a background of macho posturing

Television

If we could "just all get along" . . .

• 23 September 2002

Television - Bonnie Greer watches a rose-tinted adaptation of Zadie Smith's White Teeth

Diary - Bonnie Greer

• 10 June 2002

At the party in Cannes, Amma says that since we are five black women standing together talking, we risk being mistaken for the cabaret. Quickly, we disperse

North America

A black actor winning an Oscar? Cut!

• 25 March 2002
• 2 comments

Hollywood is still racist and critics open their mouths at their peril

Arts & Culture

Magnum Oprah

• 07 January 2002

The Great American Novel - Bonnie Greer sees the The Corrections as part of the Bush project to return the US to its "core values"