Bonnie Greer
13 September 2023
The Battle of the Sexes was in 1973. Why are we still having to fight it?
It’s hard to accept that women today have fewer rights than when Billie Jean King took on Bobby Riggs 50 years ago
Read the full article06 September 2023
Hurricane Idalia has passed, but the sickness at the heart of Florida remains
Even before the recent racist murders in Jacksonville, governor Ron DeSantis has continually pushed anti-Black policies in the state
Read the full article30 August 2023
The rise of right-wing anthems and the battle for divided America’s soul
Oliver Anthony’s Rich Men North of Richmond highlights issues found at the very heart of the nation
Read the full article23 August 2023
RICO is ‘the prosecutor’s goldmine’. It could be the end of Trump and Giuliani
A Georgian lawyer has used the game-changing Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act in her indictment against Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani
Read the full article16 August 2023
Can America afford the heavy price of Donald Trump’s free speech?
Trump has made a career out of redesigning reality to suit him
Read the full article02 August 2023
James Baldwin, the man who wrote like a preacher testifying to all humanity
What I am discovering, in re-reading his novels, is the immense capacity not only of his mind, but of his humanity
Read the full article26 July 2023
We’re wrong about race and the right
Should Suella Braverman naturally have a softer view on migration because of the colour of her skin? It’s a dangerous assumption
Read the full article26 July 2023
He’s tried fire and attempted theft, now third parties could win it for Trump
Political disruptors from Joe Biden’s side of the spectrum could split the Democrat vote and open the door for Donald Trump
Read the full article19 July 2023
How Milan Kundera turned me into an exile from New York
The death of the Czech-French novelist made me wonder if I exiled myself, just to get out of Ronald Reagan’s America
Read the full article12 July 2023
Biden could be president until he’s 86; Trump 82. Is it time for an age limit?
In this new world, a president should be no older than 65 – old enough to have the wisdom of age and the youth to still grasp what needs to be understood
Read the full article05 July 2023
Is America ready for a conspiracy theorist in the Oval Office?
In reality, RFK Jr poses no threat to Joe Biden. The movement around him, however, might
Read the full article19 June 2023
Juneteenth: When America set its people free – almost
The June 19 holiday is Black America’s 4th of July
Read the full article14 June 2023
Trump has an unyielding grip on America’s psyche. He is not done yet
Write the former president off at your peril – he epitomises the American dream and knows what makes us tick
Read the full article07 June 2023
Trump’s apprentices are entering the boardroom. He’ll destroy them all
Trump faces a crowded field of Republican rivals. He'll obliterate them all
Read the full article31 May 2023
Are Republicans ready to vote for someone who looks like Tim Scott?
A new contender has emerged in the Republican presidential race – the first African American to be elected to the Senate from the South since 1881
Read the full article24 May 2023
Disney IS America.. so DeSantis will rue burning down the House of Mouse
The Florida governor has taken on a formidable foe in a battle for the heart of American childhood
Read the full article17 May 2023
San Francisco is plagued, not just by drugs and crime, but by the tech boom
The California city is now for too many like a plague-ridden medieval Florence, once glorious, now inglorious
Read the full article10 May 2023
The coronation he wove shows Charles may be the last of his kind
The coronation of King Charles belongs to us. To our time and our age. But, will it be the last?
Read the full article03 May 2023
Meaningful reparation for slavery will lie in the hands of the young royals
Has King Charles given humanity a gift towards healing the intergenerational trauma caused by slavery?
Read the full article26 April 2023
Even the writers of Succession couldn’t get away with this Murdoch storyline
Trump is back, Carlson is gone - it’s all about the money for Murdoch. The real-life Logan Roy is bigger than fiction
Read the full article19 April 2023
Déjà vu all over again: The fight for gun control and racial justice in Tennessee
Two young Black Democrats expelled from the state’s legislature are channelling the legacy of civil rights resistance in the South
Read the full article13 April 2023
Trump now has a martyrdom myth to exploit
Republicans are hailing the former president a martyr, but Donald Trump must not win again. He is a demagogue and potential dictator
Read the full article31 March 2023
When Trump goes to court, what will actually happen?
The Democrats are talking about gun control and the Republicans are talking about paying off porn stars
Read the full article30 March 2023
Why do black people vote for Trump?
The fact that ethnic minority Republicans are Trump’s fastest-growing supporters boils down to the fact that we humans are not categories
Read the full article23 March 2023
On the ropes: The demise of the noble art of boxing
The current sensation of bouts between reality TV stars, rappers and TikTok celebrities could kill off real boxing forever
Read the full article16 March 2023
Hitch and miss: Alfred Hitchcock’s woman problem
To the director, women were not full human beings - they were props and justifications for male rampage
Read the full article09 March 2023
Grace Jones: A cultural icon
In the 1970s, the Jamaican singer was a new definition of the slogan ‘Black Power’ and she did not need politics
Read the full article01 March 2023
Jimmy Carter, the Man from Plains
Some say that had the 39th president died in 1982, for example, he would have been forgotten, written off as a failure. Now he has a legacy
Read the full article23 February 2023
The “problem” with women
Menopause is natural, not a disorder, and women should be able to talk about it openly and without stigma
Read the full article16 February 2023
Madonna is living to tell
Madonna has always questioned contemporary social norms. Why would we expect her to change now?
Read the full article09 February 2023
Race and rage in America
The Republican party has become the party of the gun
Read the full article02 February 2023
Why I don’t care about the Oscars anymore
I used to be an Oscars fanatic. But now, all the magic has gone
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