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September 13, 2018 - Issue 755: The History of Race and Labor in the
USA - An Interview of BC's Bill Fletcher,Jr. By Marc Steiner, The Real
News Network
Est. April
5, 2002
September 13, 2018 - Issue 755
The History
of
Race and Labor in the USA
An Interview of BC's Bill Fletcher,Jr.
By
Marc Steiner
The Real News Network
BlackCommentator.comEditorial Board member and Columnist, Bill Fletcher, Jr., is a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies, the immediate past president of TransAfricaForum, and the author of “They’re Bankrupting Us” - And Twenty Other Myths about Unions. He is also the co-author of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice, which examines the crisis of organized labor in the USA.Mr. Fletcher is also Co-editor of "Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral". Other Bill Fletcher, Jr. writing can be found at billfletcherjr.com. Contact Mr. Fletcher and BC. Mark Steiner:
From the time he began work as a civil rights organizer at age 14, Marc
Steiner has dedicated his life to issues of human rights and social
justice. Early in his career he worked with at-risk youth using
counseling and theatre techniques, and he taught theatre for 10 years
at the Baltimore School for the Arts. The Marc Steiner Show began
broadcasting on Baltimore’s NPR airwaves in 1993, and since then
Steiner has become one of Maryland’s most recognized voices and gained
national acclaim for his insightful style of interviewing. In 2007 he
won a Peabody Award, the most distinguished honor in broadcast media.
Steiner was the visionary force behind the founding of WYPR and he also
founded Center for Emerging Media, a non-profit media production
company with a mission to showcase new voices, tell stories that need
to be told, and use the media to help heal our world.