By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist When I first heard the news, my response was one of both outrage and a calm lack of surprise....
By Bill Fletcher NNPA Columnist I have found myself getting a bit nervous as I hear various U.S. politicians rattling their swords in response to...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Alright team, here we are again approaching the midterm elections. Having won both the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, we...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist My friend is awaiting health insurance. This is not academic. She’s afraid that she might have cancer. Think about...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I have started to hear it all over again. The intense and record cold weather has led ideologues on...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist “It felt like being in a huge prison.” That was how I responded to questions I was asked in...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon. The streets of South Tel Aviv were teeming with people. We first saw...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I was not at all surprised that the Washington Redskins canned Coach Mike Shanahan. Three losing seasons over four...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The escalating crisis in the South Sudan, a country only constituted in 2011, has brought with it growing concerns...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The mainstream media has had difficulty understanding the eruption of strikes in the fast food industry. They have acted...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I had the opportunity to visit Bogota, Colombia for a meeting of representatives of public sector unions from the...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The news out of the southeast African nation of Mozambique has been most disturbing. After a 21 year period of...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The day after Thanksgiving, so-called “Black Friday,” will be a moment for national protests over the conditions faced by thousands...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I read a very sad article in the Washington Post on October 29. It concerned the base of the Tea Party movement,...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist My barber shook his head as I sat down in his chair. He was deeply disturbed by the Tea Party...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I keep hoping that I can stop writing about the federal government shutdown/lockout. Hopefully, when you read this, it will...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist It was an unusual setting in Italy, or at least so I thought. My wife and I sat at...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The central issue that should concern us when it comes to the chemical weapons crisis in Syria is not...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I cannot let a football season open without raising the question of the names of sports teams generally and...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist On August 27, 1963, the day before the historic March on Washington, one of the greatest thinkers of the...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist How can there be honest negotiations when one side – which has the lion’s share of the weapons, including a...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist In a 2009 visit to Vietnam I asked a retired colonel in the Vietnam People’s Army about the notorious toxin “Agent...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Prior to the 2012 elections, I found myself in a discussion with a colleague concerning Republican efforts at what has...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Alright, team, enough is enough. During the entire first term of the Obama administration, Black America—for the most part—gave the...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The other night I was watching television and a commercial came on. It was from Walmart and it was attempting...
