By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 31, 2019 Remember Kyle Whitmire? He is a Birmingham, Alabama-based reporter with...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 26, 2019 Yesterday, we stood in the 101-degree sweltering heat in front of 3240...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 24, 2019 When I was a young teenager, I once misbehaved very badly in school. My...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 23, 2019 When George Wallace entered the governor’s office for his second term in...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 22, 2019 Yesterday, I published an article titled, “Thank you, Alabama Power...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 21, 2019 Sherman Industries signaled today that it may not move its downtown...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 21, 2019 Yesterday, I learned that Sherman Industries has no intention of...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 19, 2019 Residents of the predominantly black Five Points West community of...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 16, 2019 Very few things in life shock me. The complicity of a millennial black...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 14, 2019 On Monday night, Birmingham, Alabama mayor Randall Woodfin announced at a...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 11, 2019 In 2014, nearly 100,000 residents of Flint, Michigan were exposed to...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 10, 2019 Lillian Bernice Varnado Watkins, the matriarch of the Watkins Family, was...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 10, 2019 On October 3, 2017, Randall Woodfin soundly defeated incumbent William...

On January 24, 2019, Sherman Industries presented its relocation plan to Birmingham, Alabama Mayor Randall Woodfin’s Department of Planning, Engineering, and Permits (PEP). Woodfin, who is a first term mayor, blessed the plan without doing his homework on Sherman Industries and its global parent company, the HeidelbergCement Group. During World War II, the HeidelbergCement Group and other German cement companies became a vital part of the Nazis’ war and death machine.

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 8, 2019 Sherman Industries has not withdrawn its application for an Air Permit...

Breaking News--- By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 7, 2019 Four months after learning about Sherman Industries plan...

An Exclusive Investigative Report By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 6, 2019 On October 3, 2017, Randall Woodfin won...

An Exclusive Investigative Report By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 6, 2019 Beginning on April 18, 2019, I published...

Exclusive Investigative Report By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 4, 2019 I watched the May 1, 2019 video of...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 3, 2019 In May of 1933, Birmingham, Alabama City Engineer A.J. Hawkins released a...