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Donald V. Watkins
Jul 31, 20195 min read
Adam and Sallie Watkins: A legacy of Love
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on July 31, 2019 On July 21, 2019, I published an article titled, “Watkins Men Never...
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Donald V. Watkins
Jul 28, 20191 min read
Do You Want to Know What Love Is?
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on July 29, 2019 In the Watkins family, we have known what real love is for five...
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Donald V. Watkins
Jul 25, 20195 min read
The Love Between a Father and His Children
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on July 25, 2019 Last week, Alabama Media Group reporter/columnist Kyle Whitmire...
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Donald V. Watkins
Jul 21, 20195 min read
Watkins Men Never Surrender Their Manhood
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on July 21, 2019 During our highly publicized trials and tribulations over the past few...
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Donald V. Watkins
Jul 20, 20199 min read
Weathering the Storms of Adversity
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on July 20, 2019 State and federal agencies have used every resource at their disposal in...
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Donald V. Watkins
Jul 17, 20195 min read
Donald Watkins Jr. Smacks Down Kyle Whitmire
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on July 17, 2019 Kyle Whitmire hates the Watkins family and what it has achieved in...
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Donald V. Watkins
Jul 14, 20195 min read
The Sun Always Rises
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on July 14, 2019 My sentencing hearing is scheduled for Tuesday morning at 9 a.m. CST in...
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Donald V. Watkins
Jun 27, 20194 min read
Brenda Lee Thompson Carter: One of God’s Greatest Gifts to Humanity
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on June 27, 2016, Updated on June 27, 2019 Three years ago today, I drove to Montgomery,...
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Donald V. Watkins
Jun 17, 20194 min read
In the End, Judge Frank Johnson Needed Community Acceptance, Too
Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., was the most hated man in Alabama’s white community in the 1950s, 60s, and early 70s. This is his story.
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Donald V. Watkins
Jun 16, 20194 min read
Dr. Levi Watkins: The Father Who Taught Me How to be a Strong Man
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on June 16, 2019 My father was Levi Watkins. He was president of Alabama State...
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Donald V. Watkins
May 28, 20193 min read
“VU Med School Gets 1st Negro”
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 28, 2019 On May 29, 1966, The Tennessean (Nashville, Tennessee) published an...
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Donald V. Watkins
May 10, 20195 min read
A Mother’s Day Tribute to Lillian Bernice Varnado Watkins
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 10, 2019 Lillian Bernice Varnado Watkins, the matriarch of the Watkins Family, was...
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Donald V. Watkins
Mar 26, 20196 min read
Open Letter to the Children and Grandchildren of George C. Wallace, Jr.
March 26, 2019 Dear Wallace Family Members, Many things have been written and said about former Alabama Gov. George Corley Wallace, Jr. ...
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Donald V. Watkins
Mar 9, 20193 min read
We Feel Your Love
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on March 9, 2019 Yesterday, a federal jury in Birmingham, Alabama convicted me on all ten...
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Donald V. Watkins
Feb 17, 20191 min read
Opening Statements on Tuesday in Watkins Trial
Posted on February 17, 2019 Opening statements will kick off the start of the USA v. Donald V. Watkins, Sr. and Donald V. Watkins, Jr....
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Donald V. Watkins
Feb 3, 20194 min read
Rosa Parks Embodied Greatness and Service to Humanity
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on February 3, 2019 I have written on many occasions that Rosa Parks was a dear friend of...
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Donald V. Watkins
Jan 30, 20192 min read
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on January 30, 2019 “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron” is a DreamWorks animated movie...
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Donald V. Watkins
Jan 26, 20194 min read
Mike Schmitz Stood Up For The Disinvited
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on January 26, 2019 Yesterday, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) announced...
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Donald V. Watkins
Jan 20, 20194 min read
I Never Knew Her Name
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on January 20, 2019 I never knew her name, but I never forgot my chance encounter with...
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Donald V. Watkins
Jan 13, 20195 min read
AL.com Retracts John Archibald's Fake Racist Quotation But Violates Agreement
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on January 13, 2019; Updated at 2:30 p.m. EST Today, AL.com retracted and apologized for...
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