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60 Years Ago, This Tennessee State University Student Demanded Academic Excellence at His College and Got It
By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on April 8, 2024 In Memoriam to Dr. Levi Watkins, Jr., MD -- June 13, 1944 to April 11,...
Donald V. Watkins
Apr 8, 20242 min read
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Denied Admission to UA Medical School, an Undeterred Levi Watkins, Jr., Soldiered On to Co-Develop the Cardioverter Defibrillator and Implant the First One in a Human Patient
By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on March 6, 2024 If you are one of the 200,000 heart patients each year who received an...
Donald V. Watkins
Mar 6, 20242 min read
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“VU Med School Gets 1st Negro”
By Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on May 28, 2019; Updated and Republished on September 1, 2023 On May 29, 1966, The...
Donald V. Watkins
Sep 1, 20234 min read
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A Watkins Family Gathering in Atlanta
By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on August 3, 2023 We met in Atlanta for three days last weekend. It was a family...
Donald V. Watkins
Aug 3, 20234 min read
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An Open Letter to My Grandchildren
By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on July 3, 2023 Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court banned affirmative action for black...
Donald V. Watkins
Jul 3, 20236 min read
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Women's History Month: Honoring the Life and Legacy of Lillian Bernice Varnado Watkins
By: Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on March 8, 2023 Lillian Bernice Varnado Watkins, the matriarch of the Watkins family,...
Donald V. Watkins
Mar 8, 20235 min read
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Breakthrough on the Navier-Stokes Equation
By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on September 25, 2020 To my colleagues Mr. Johann Jordan, Dr. Donatus O. Mbanefo, and Mr....
Donald V. Watkins
Sep 25, 20205 min read
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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...
Donald V. Watkins
Jul 21, 20195 min read
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“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...
Donald V. Watkins
May 28, 20193 min read
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The Bridge Builders
The Watkins family has been bridge builders in America since the 1830s. Bridge building is a noble calling. Its impact is generational.
Donald V. Watkins
Apr 27, 20185 min read
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