By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist In December 2009 the airliner I was on touched down in Hanoi, Vietnam. That was my first time to...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist In December 2009 the airliner I was on touched down in Hanoi, Vietnam. That was my first time to...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The recent deaths of more than a thousand African refugees attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea in order to...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Since the moment that he announced his candidacy in 2007, through to this day, there have been two debates...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I was standing in Jacksonville, Fla. airport awaiting a flight home when I looked up at the television at...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist In 1991, I watched Somalia disintegrate. It was not just the breakup of a state, as we were to...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Anyone who has followed my columns knows that about this time of the year I normally write something about...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Anyone who has followed my columns knows that about this time of the year I normally write something about...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist St. Patrick’s Day has its rituals, but one that is not considered is any discussion of race. Having grown...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I never cease to be surprised by the racist audacity of the Republicans in Congress. In clear violation of...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I never cease to be surprised by the racist audacity of the Republicans in Congress. In clear violation of...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I remember reading a piece by a right-wing think-tank in 1990 calling for the privatization of the postal service. Their...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Within days of the murders of three Muslims in Chapel Hill, N.C., a crazed gunman shot several people...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Within days of the murders of three Muslims in Chapel Hill, N.C., a crazed gunman shot several people...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I have to confess that I really cannot believe the measles controversy. The issue of vaccinations had been settled,...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I have to confess that I really cannot believe the measles controversy. The issue of vaccinations had been settled,...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Maybe it has always been like this. If so, I am not sure precisely what triggered my new concern....
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist We need to see beyond petty insults. The fact that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) chose to invite Israeli...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist It has been deeply disturbing to hear and read suggestions that there is something inherently violent in Islam that...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist In the aftermath of the killings of staff at the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris, there has been near...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I find it very unsettling to hear police officers discuss how they believe that BlackLivesMatter protesters and certain politicians,...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I find it very unsettling to hear police officers discuss how they believe that BlackLivesMatter protesters and certain politicians,...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I found it quite amazing to hear the reactions by much of the public to the Senate Intelligence Committee...