Bill Fletcher

Trying to rewrite the January 6th coup attempt

March 18, 2021

It is important to note that both Antifa and the Black Lives Matter movement are networks, at best. There is no one organization called “Antifa,” for instance, and there are many organizations that operate under the banner of Black Lives Matter. Therefore, the right-wing assertions of an Antifa and BLM conspiracy would not make sense in the best of all possible worlds. But more importantly, there is no evidence to back up such assertions!

Opinion

Trump’s Favorite Dictator

Bill Fletcher, Jr., NNPA Newswire ContributorOctober 17, 2019

When Donald Trump allegedly referred to el-Sisi as his ‘favorite dictator’ that said a great deal about both el-Sisi and Trump. What it said about el-Sisi was to remind the world that his regime is among the favorite of the United States elite in its policies in the Middle East and North Africa.

Opinion

Trump and the Weather

Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Newswire ContributorSeptember 19, 2019

There have been repeated stories of the repression of science under this administration. Scientists have been informed not to use this word or that word. The suppression of scientific exploration and publication of new research on climate change. This is all being done under the cover of night. But now we have a story where it is quite public that this administration not only wants to dictate reality, but it wishes to suppress those who contradict them, irrespective of the truth.

Family Opinion

Watching a father & son

Bill Fletcher, Jr., NNPA Newswire ContributorJune 13, 2019

It is not just that the DJ Pryor and son video is adorable. It reminds the viewer of the components of love that must exist between a parent and child.

Opinion

Right-wing Disrupters

Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Newswire ContributorMay 9, 2019

Liberal and progressive individuals and institutions should expect disruptions to not only continue but to increase in scale. Given the signals that the Trump administration has conveyed to the political Right—as in suggesting that it is appropriate to beat up opponents—the rabid Right feels empowered.

Larry Aubry Opinion

Black Workers, Labor Unions and Justice

Larry Aubry March 21, 2019

For Black unionists, labor reforms, like those in education, law enforcement and politics, are more rhetoric than reality.

Op-Ed Opinion

The Reluctance to Come Forward After Being Sexually Harassed

Bill Fletcher, Jr., NNPA Newswire ContributorSeptember 27, 2018

The debates that have unfolded in connection with the campaign to appoint Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court increasingly centered on charges of alleged sexual assault by him against Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. The attacks on Dr. Ford have come to represent everything that is so blatantly misogynistic about current U.S. society. The political Right has pulled out all of the stops to demean her character. One of the critical ‘arrows’ that is being fired is one that goes like this: why didn’t she come forward sooner?

Opinion

Is Trump Looking Out for Workers?

Bill Fletcher, Jr., NNPA Newswire ColumnistAugust 31, 2018

If you leave aside for a moment the horrendous assaults that Trump and his Republican allies have been conducting against American workers and their unions, it is still difficult to see how Trump’s views on trade are helping American workers.

Op-Ed

Relocating U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem a Bad Move

Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Newswire ColumnistJanuary 4, 2018

Most of the world immediately recognized that Trump’s commitment to shift the embassy to Jerusalem was a cynical move to appease his base.

Larry Aubry Opinion

UNIONS STILL LOSING GROUND AND BLACKS HARDEST HIT

Larry Aubry June 29, 2017

Organized labor is practically a shell of what it once was and regaining that strength is now a matter of urgent necessity. But Black unionists’ concerns are not a significant part of organized labors’ deliberations on regaining influence or real reform. For Black unionists, labor reform, in the public or private sectors, is mostly rhetoric not reality.

Opinion

Remembering the Scope of Katrina

Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA ColumnistSeptember 3, 2015

There will be many remembrances written in light of the 10th anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. There are a few points I would like to add as we reflect on the scope and depth of catastrophe. First, and not in order of importance, Katrina was not only a disaster for New Orleans, and not only for Louisiana, but was a Gulf Coast disaster. Very little attention, for example, has ever been paid to the impact of Katrina on Mississippi. The devastation not only affected the lives of Gulf Coast Mississippi residents, but had a long-term economic impact on the