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When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fig...

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She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her ev...

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A Parallel Life

The gap that was created during those transatlantic voyages hundreds of years ago.That gap is the ma...

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The official erasure of any existence before enslavement – as if black Americans did not exist befor...

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Bonnie Greer

Playwright

Born: 1948-11-16

Died: N/A

Bonnie Greer, OBE FRSL (born 16 November 1948) is an American-British playwright, novelist, critic and broadcaster, who has lived in the UK since 1986. She has appeared as a panellist on television programmes such as Newsnight Review and Question Time and has served on the boards of several leading arts organisations, including the British Museum, the Royal Opera House and the London Film School. She is Vice President of the Shaw Society. She is former Chancellor of Kingston University in Kingston upon Thames, London. In July 2022, she was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.More