Bill Fletcher, Jr.

Bill Fletcher, Jr. "is Executive Editor of The Black Commentator. He is also a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies and the immediate past president of TransAfrica Forum."

He "is the Belle Zeller Visiting Professor at Brooklyn College-City University of New York. He has been President and Chief Executive Officer of TransAfrica Forum, a national non-profit organization organizing, educating and advocating for policies in favor of the peoples of Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America; Vice President for International Trade Union Development Programs for the George Meany Center of the AFL-CIO; and Education Director and later Assistant to the President of the AFL-CIO. He was a co-founder of the Black Radical Congress. He serves as the chairman of the Board of the International Labor Rights Fund and is a co-founder of the Center for Labor Renewal. A graduate of Harvard College, he has authored numerous articles published in a variety of newspapers and magazines, and is the co-author of the pictorial booklet; The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1934-1941."

He has also been "a co-chair of United for Peace and Justice, and a founder of the Black Radical Congress."


 * Director, American Progressive Caucus Policy Foundation
 * Advisory Board, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
 * Editorial Advisory Board, Amandla
 * Editorial Advisory Board, Souls
 * The Real News: International Founding Committee (formerly linked to the AFL-CIO)
 * Former Director, Left Forum
 * Board of Associate and Advisory Editors, International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
 * Editorial Board, New Labor Forum

Books

 * Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Fernando Gapasin, Solidarity Divided (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008). review