Bonnie Greer

Music

Move on up

• 30 August 2010

Alvin Ailey’s choreography and colour-blind casting merged classical with folk movement in a style that came to represent modern American dance. Through his 1960 signature piece, Revelations, African Americans came to imagine themselves in a whole new way.

Books

The Year of the Flood

• 17 September 2009

Politics

Diary: Bonnie Greer

• 20 August 2009
• 1 comment

I love Fox News. What it stands for, I’m against

Life & Society

Don't drink the Kool-Aid

• 28 February 2008
• 2 comments

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
• 1 comment

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